The Portsmouth jubilee. The reception of the sons of Portsmouth resident abroad, July 4, 1853

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THE PORTSMOUTH JUBILEE

RECEPTION

SONS OF PORTSMOUTH RESIDENT ABROAD,

JULY 4TH, 1853.
BY THE CITY AUTHORITIES AND THE CITIZENS OF PORTSMOUTH.

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DECORATIONS, SPEECHES, SENTIMENTS,

POKTSMOUTH, N. H.

C. W. BREV/STER & SON, PUBLISHERS.

1853.

THE PORTSMOUTH JUBILEE.

RECEPTION

SONS OF PORTSMOUTH RESIDENT ABROAD,

JULY 4TH, 1853,

CITY AUTHORITIES AND THE CITIZENS OF PORTSMOUTH.

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PORTSMOUTH:

C. W. BREWSTER & SON, PUBLISHERS
1853

ON THE HOMAQE OF HER SONS.

BY REV. CHARLES BURROUGHS, D. D.

AN INTRODUCTORY, PREPARED AT THE SOLICITATION OF THE PUBLISHERS.

"I shall enter on no encomium upon her. She needs none. There she is. Behold her and
judge for yourselves. There is her history ; the •world knows It by heart. The past, at least,
is secure." — Webster.

The suggestion that the Sons of Portsmouth, settled or resident in other
places, should visit together their native city, and celebrate together the last
birthday of their nation's Independence, was extremely felicitous, and at the
same time very creditable to the heads and hearts of those, from whom it em
anated. It was a suggestion, well calculated to revive and increase the excel
lent sentiment of local attachment, to strengthen tho ties of brotherhood, to
awaken a warmer love of country, and to kindle resolutions of loftier virtue.
Local attachments are always laudable, and should ever be encouraged. Oar
sentiments, affections, and tastes are necessarily connected with them. Natural
scenery, the beings by whom we are surrounded, and indeed all external cir
cumstances, which affect the youthful mind, are among the mightiest agents or
elements in the formation of character. The cloud-piercing mountains, the
flowing river, the placid lake, the swelling sail, the waving forests, the busy
city, and the scenes of pastoral life mould the elements of the intellect and
dispositions of the heart. Whatever be the circumstances, by which we are
surrounded, they ever become dear to us.

E'en the wild torrent and the mountain's roar
But bind us to our native mountains more.

V0f coarse the suggestion, to which we have alluded, was instantly received with
enthusiasm by the sons of Portsmouth, whose avocations and duties had called
them away from their native city to find homes in other places. They responded
to the call with prompt and generous action, well-arranged operations, and
ample pecuniary contributions. Our city authorities evinced the most noble
feelings on this occasion, gave it their most cordial sanction, and voted a lib
eral appropriation. Exultingly, and at the appointed time, judiciously selected
for the outpouring of their affection and patriotism, a multitude of the sons of
Portsmouth, leaving behind them their cares and duties, met on this, their
native soil ; and beneath a wide-spread tent in an open field, and with the
blessing of a most auspicious sky, talked over the scenes of their early days,
and enjoyed a brilliant commingling at a happy banquet ; praising their city,
its associations and history ; seeking to do it honor ; and manifesting a noblo
pride and joy that they were the sons of Portsmouth.

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Nor was it without sufficient reasons that they were here assembled, on our
national jubilee, to pay filial homage to the place of their birth. Their natal
city had claims on their affection and praise. Her antiquity, history, institu
tions, scenery, and great men speak most eloquently in commendation of her.

As for antiquity, our city is one of the earliest discovered and first settled places
of New England. In the beginning of the seventeenth century some merchants
of Bristol, England, having formed a private company for the investigation of
this country, employed for that service Capt. Martin Pring, of Bristol, a skilful
navigator, and much praised by Gorges. They placed under his command two
vessels auspiciously named the Speedwell and the Discoverer. In the year 1603
he set sail for America, and was enabled to speed so well, as to be the first discoverer
of New Hampshire. Just two hundred and fifty years since he entered the
channel of our river, and explored it for three or four leagues. He landed on this
shore, and doubtless with his companions trod upon the soil of this city ; for
he came in search of sassafras, then esteemed in pharmacy a sovereign panacea.
Our city therefore boasts of her antiquity of two hundred and fifty years, and
of being the first soil in New Hampshire, that was trod by Englishmen. In
1614 the celebrated John Smith, saved from death by the Indian girl, Poca-
hontas, examined and extolled the deep waters of the Piscataqua. In 1 623
the company of Laconia in England, consisting of Gorges and Mason and
many eminent noble and enterprising merchants of London and other cities,
selected some choice persons and sent them to establish a plantation on this
river. They came here for trade and commerce ; were high-minded men, and
had enlarged views of government, religion, and religious toleration. They
were not of the Puritan party, for Gorges and Mason had not the same relig
ious views with the Massachusetts planters. John Mason, the London mer
chant, member of the Plymouth company for the planting, ruling, and govern
ing of New England, and first Governor of this province, advanced a large sum
of money for the welfare of this place, and may be said to have laid the
foundation of its commercial prosperity. David Tomson, a Scotchman, who
seems to have been prominent among the planters, who first settled in this
town, built a house at Odiorue's Point, a few rods north of the present
evident remains of an ancient fort. It was built the very year of his arrival
here ; was the first house, which was erected on this plantation, and was
afterwards called Mason-Hall. It was not till about eight years afterward
that Humphrey Chadbourne built the Great House, which was situated on the
bank of the river at the corner of Court street and Water street. It was after
wards occupied by Warnerton and by Richard Cutts. In looking now at our
ancestry, at their enlightened character, - noble enterprise, liberal views, and
their very choice men selected by the Plymouth company, they cannot fail to
awaken in us a laudable pride.

On the 28th of May, 1653, this plantation, "which was accidentally called
Slrawberry Bank, by reason of a bank where strawberries were found," was
allowed by the General Court at Boston, on the petition of Brian Pendleton
and others, to be called Portsmouth, " as being a name most suitable for this
place, it being the river's mouth, and good as any in the land." It was also
the name of the English city in which John Mason was born. The number of
families then was between fifty and sixty. " The line of the township was
ordered to reach from the sea by Hampton line to Wynnacot river." Our planters
were so industrious and successful, as to be able to send corn to the early sufferers
at Plymouth. The first edifice erected here for public worship was an Episcopal
church. It was built at least as early as the year 1639 in what is now called
Church street and formerly Church lane, and northerly of the Court House. A
parsonage-house, erected at the same time, was situated in Pleasant street, a
few rods north of the Universalist meeting-house. The parishioners made
choice of llichard Gibson, an Episcopalian clergyman, as their pastor, being

the first minister that was ever settled in this town ; and the worship was ac
cording to the ritual of the English church. He remained here about four
years, and in the year 1642 returned to England.

In the year 1634 Francis Williams was appointed Governor of the plantation.
He was a discreet and'sehsibte matly accomplished in his manners and accep
table to the people. He collected about him many valuable men, whose ex
ample and influence were of the best order. These circumstances gave a high
character to the town. Its reputation was so great, that it was always selected
in the days of the colonial government by many persons as a most desirable
place of residence ; and for many years it was the home of the royal governors
and of the king's council.

It has been distinguished for men of patriotism Here lived William
Vaughan, who claimed to be the projector of the siege of Louisburg under
Pepperell ; Dr. Cutter, who was a surgeon in that expedition ; Col. Meserve,
who was one of its mightiest spirits ; Maj. Hale, -who was an officer in one of
the regiments ; and the Rev. Samuel Langdon, who was then a chaplain of the
New Hampshire forces. Gen. Whipple, who resided here for the largest por
tion of his life, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Gov. Langdon was always a devoted friend to his country; went to Bennington,
as a volunteer in the army after the capture of Cornwallis ; and was at Rhode
Island with a detachment, while the British troops were there stationed. He,
with Gen. Sullivan, seized at the fort in the mouth of our harbor, one hundred
barrels of gunpowder : and so promptly conveyed them to Bunker Hill, that
they did service on the memorable seventeenth of June. He had the honor of
presiding in the Senate when Gen. Washington was elected President of the
United States, and had the supreme honor of announcing that election
to Congress. He with John Pickering and Peirce Long were delegates to the
convention for the adoption of the federal constitution, and most thoroughly
supported it. Long commanded a regiment in the revolutionary war, and was
a member of the old Congress. We might mention many others, who have
contended valiantly for our country. It is a matter of pride to us that the
greatest of American patriots, Washington, has walked in our streets, fished
in our harbor, slept in our city, engaged here in public worship as a reverent
observer of Sunday, and received with favor the homage of our citizens. Hence
the sons of Portsmouth have powerful authority and example for cherishing
the spirit of patriotism.

In relation to letters and the patronage of literature, we can speak of our
city with no small satisfaction. When Harvard College was apparently in a
hopeless condition, during the latter part of Dr. Chauncey's presidency, and when
all its funds did not amount to one thousand pounds, our town was thejirst in
that emergency to lend a helping hand to the institution. A voluntary con
tribution was made amongthe inhabitants, in 1669i and the town was authorized
to pledge a sum of sixty pounds sterling a year for seven years ensuing, to be used
by the overseers, for the advancement of good instruction there. Of this sum
Richard Cutts subscribed twenty pounds per annum. The first newspaper,
printed in New Hampshire, was printed in this town by Daniel Fowle, in 1756 ;
and his printing office was the first establishment of the kind in the Province.
A social library was founded here in the year 1750, and the books were chiefly
imported from England. We have an Atheneum which was begun about thirty-
six years since, and which contains about eight thousand volumes of most
choice, valuable and expensive books. James Edward Sheafe and Horace A.
Haven have made to it most munificent bequests. We have had among ua
most finished scholars. Joseph Stevens Buckminstcr was not only one of our
most eloquent preachers, but one of the most intelligent men and beautiful
writers known in our country. He may be said to have created a new era in
our literature and in the advancement of biblical criticism. Nathaniel Apple-

ton Haven was eminently a man of letters, of rich classical attainments, of
poetical genius and refined taste. Jonathan Mitchell Sewall's poetry exhibits
high talent, and is marked by vigorous and melodious verse. His patriotic
eongs are admirable. Much has been done here in the cause of education by
Major Hale, who was a schoolmaster of the first order, who has educated here
several thousand scholars ; and he gave for very many years a remarkably
elevated tone to the intelligence of our citizens. Major Rogers has given us an
account of his Indian expeditions. Alden has printed sermons and volumes of
epitaphs. Penhallow has presented us with a history of the wars of New Eng
land with the Eastern Indians. Evans hag published a " Pedestrious tour," and
his sister a novel on Resignation. The elder Buckminster has blessed us with
many excellent discourses. His son's sermons and essays are among the rich
est of literary productions. Originality of thought, conclusiveness of reasoning,
and a vigorous style mark the sermons of Dr. Parker. Edmund Eoberts has
published a valuable volume entitled "An Embassy to the Eastern coasts of Co
chin China, Siam and Muscat." Halliburton has left us some sound and sen
sible essays. Adams has given us an useful volume of Annals. Woodbury has
bequeathed to us a rich legacy of legal learning, political wisdom and practical
philosophy. The forensic arguments of Mr. Mason betray such vastness and
clearness of thought, such wondrous mental powers, and such logical concln-
siveness, as must give immortality to his name. We almost feel as if we could
claim Webster's works as a part of our literary honors. It was here that in
the year 1812 he wrote his celebrated memorial addressed to Mr. Madison, in re
lation to the war with England. It was a document of such prodigious ability,
weight, directness and power, as to awaken the astonishment of the community,
and lead to the irresistible conviction that he was doubtless one of the greatest
men of the nation. It was here and by this act that he first developed and
published his colossal powers to- the world. So, too, was fabricated here the
effective artillery, which he brought to bear in the case of the Trustees of Dart
mouth College.

We have had among us many distinguished ministers. Their influence
which is usually a predominant element in affecting not only the religious and
social, but also the literary character of a community, might have been brought
forward at the recent jubilee with most effective force. Soon after Richard
Gibson's departure came James Parker. In 1658 Joshua Moody was settled
here. He was a man of talents, zeal and piety, was honored with an invi
tation to the Presidency of Harvard College, modestly declined it, and deserved
high praise for boldly condemning all the prosecutions for witchcraft. He
was succeeded by Nathaniel Rogers, great grandson of the Martyr, and was
here twenty-six years. Dr. Styles was an eminent preacher here, but left his
charge to assume the duties of the Presidency of Yale College. Dr. Samuel
Haven blessed the town for fifty-four years by his able discourses and exemplary
life. Timothy Alden, a well-known antiquarian, was his successor. Arthur
Brown, of Trinity College, Dublin, a man of great learning and intellectual
power, was minister of the Episcopal Church for thirty-seven years. He was
succeeded by Ogden and Willard.

Dr. Langdon preached here twenty seven years, wrote a valuable book on
the Revelation of St. John, and a summary of Doctrine and Practice, and was
an able President of Harvard College. He and Col. Blanchard made a map
of the State. Dr. Buckminister was a celebrated divine among us for thirty-
three years. Mr. Putnam faithfully devoted himself to the duties of his clerical
profession among us for about twenty years. He was was succeeded by Holt
and Clark. Dr. Parker, who stood very high in the estimation of the public
for talents and judgment, labored here successfully for about thirty years.
Besides these valuable men, we had Emerson, Drowne, Fitch, Ballon, Streeter,
Turner, King, Noah Parker, Smith, Howe, Jones, Millard, Harris, Kilton,

Stow, Crawford, Naylor, Brown, Waterbury, Townc, Walton, Humphrey and
many others truly deserving our praise. Samuel Parker, who was a Bishop of
the Episcopal Church of Massachusetts, was born in this town.

We have had eminent physicians. Among them were Clement and Hall
Jackson, Joseph Peirce, Ammi R. Cutter, who practiced here sixty years ; his
son, William Cutter, Joshua Brackett, the learned and beloved Pierrepont,
the energetic and skilful Cheever.

Among our eminent lawyers we mention J. M. Sewall, Chief Justice Picker
ing, Richard Evans, Judge Sherburne, Judge Parker, Edward St.Loe Livermore,
Edward Cutts, Webster and Mason.

Among bur merchants have been John Cutts, whose wife Ursilina was killed
by the Indians, the Wibirds, the two 3ohn '" Wentworths, Benning Wentworth,
Daniel Rindge, Pierce Long, Theodore Atkinson, Pjailiallaws, Mark Hunk-
ing Wentworth, Henry Sherburne, the two Langdons, Jaffreys, Sheafes, Col.
Moffatt, Col. Warner, Manning, Gardner, Goddard, Col. Gaines, Peirces,
Marsh, Longs, Rundlett, Parrotts, Rices, Ladds, SJiapley, Havens and others.
One of our ablest men, John Peirce. Esq. commissioned by the Masonian
proprietors, settled their long continued and vexatious suits, to the satisfaction
of all parties, and ever through life secured the highest regard and confidence
of the community. Gov. John Wentworth and Charles Mary Wentworth, two
of our most illustrious men, were Baronets. We have had among our teachers,
beside the renowned Major Hale, the pious and devoted Amos Tappan, Hurl-
but, Morse, Dr. Coffin and others. Our schools have been of a high order,
and at present are not surpassed by those of any other city. Very many of
our sons have been educated at the Colleges of Harvard and Dartmouth, and
have done us honor.

In relation to ship building, we are certainly entitled to the highest praise.
The first ship of war, ever built on this side of the Atlantic ; the first line of
battle ship which was built by our government ; and the Congress, the largest
and best frigate now in our navy, were built here. Seventeen of our national
ships have been built here ; and two more are on the stocks. We are
distinguished, too, for the number, speed, beauty and size of the merchant ves
sels, which have been constructed in this place. Between the year 1800 and the
year 1850, no less than 486 vessels have been built in this harbor ; and 218 of
them were ships. Their tonnage amounted to 126,000. The elder Badger,
now deceased, built one hundred vessels. We cannot enumerate the many
other vessels built here.

Our city is remarkable for its noble, safe and capacious harbor, which de
serves the praise bestowed on the harbor of Portsmouth in England, which has
been called the king's bed-chamber and the peculiar residence of Neptune-
Never did a more beautiful river than the Piscataqua roll its waves into the
sea. Its current of more than five miles in an hour; its depth, at low water,
of seventy feet ; its resistance to all the power of frost for some miles above the
town ; its grand breadth ; and its lovely banks : this combination of singular
advantages renders this place one of the most important and interesting naval
stations in pur country. Our city is remarkable for the delightful scenery
with which it is surrounded. On every elevation is presented a magnificent
landscape. The rides around us are filled with enchanting objects. The
climate is salubrious. We have ever been uncommonly free from epidemic
diseases. Great crimes are here rarely committed, and no execution has
taken place among us, since the year 1768. Great intelligence, sound morality
and excellent manners pervade our community. There is a remarkable har
mony among the various religious denominations. Rarely is to be found a
community so exempt from theological feuds and prejudices. The fields
are generally well cultivated ; and much attention is paid to the study of
agriculture.

With these facts before us, who would not commend the noble feelings, which
have actuated the sons of Portsmouth, resident or settled in other places, to
meet together and unite in one common jubilee for the purpose of congratu
lating each other on the place of their birth, and living over in pleasant remi-
niscenses, and talking over in language of rapture, all the delightful associations
and endearments of their natal home. Well may every son of Portsmouth on
such an occasion say,

Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade !

Ah, fields beloved in vain !

Where once my careless childhood strayed,

A stranger yet to pain !

I feel the gales that from ye blow,

A momentary bliss bestow,

As, waving fresh their gladsome wing,

My weary soul they seem to soothe,

And, redolent of joy and youth

To breathe a second spring.

What a variety of emotions must have affected the hearts of all the sons of
Portsmouth, who were present at such a jubilee. They must have felt them
selves, as mingling not only with their living friends on that occasion, but with
all the departed and great men, who have trod upon this soil. They must
have felt, as if the mighty spirits of their ancestors were present at their jubilee,
entered into their feelings and animated their souls to increased progress in
patriotism and virtue. They must have imagined themselves boldly admonished
to be grateful for the high blessings of their birthplace, and to be unwearied in
the most diligent efforts to render it deserving of universal admiration and
praise.

THE JUBILEE.

The welcome shout rang loud and high,
Joy kindled every beaming eye ;
Each bosom caught the joyous strain
That welcomed home the loved again.
The arches, wreathed in living green,
Bent kindly o'er the festive scene,
And breathed in words of friendship dear,
" Oh, wanderers, ye are welcome here !"
A voice seemed in the very air,
That shouted, WELCOME ! everywhere.
Thrice welcome, brothers ! sang the breeze
Thrice welcome ! whispered back the trees
Thrice welcome ! echoed wood and river.
Thus would we hail our children ever.

Early in May a few lines appeared in the Boston Post,
giving notice that it was the intention of some of the sons
of Portsmouth, resident in Boston, to visit the home of their
childhood on the approaching anniversary of National Inde
pendence, and inviting others to join them. This spark
from the flint, or rather in this case we should say the
granite, soon kindled up a flame which could not be sub
dued, — and no one seemed disposed to subdue it if he could.
A preliminary meeting of the Portsmouth residents in Boston
was called, and the number which attended was surprising
to all. They made the preliminary arrangements and ad
journed.

On the evening of the 2d of June the first movement was
made in Portsmouth by the passage of the following in the
Common Council:

It being understood informally that the natives of Portsmouth resident in
Boston and in other distant places purpose to visit this city on the approaching
anniversary of our National Independence, therefore,

Resolved, That the City Council extend to all such a cordial invitation, and
that a committee of three on the part of the Common Council, with such as
the Board of Aldermen may add, be appointed to make suitable arrangements
for their reception, when any communication may be received from their
•committees.

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The resolution was concurred in, and the committees
appointed were as follows : — Aldermen Brown, Knowlton,
Jenkins, Colcord, Stackpole, Dame. Of the Common Coun
cil, Messrs. Haven, Todd, Laighton, Claggett, Rand and
Gerrish. Mayor Walker and President Rowe were also
added. A meeting of the citizens was called and the follow
ing gentlemen were appointed to co-operate with the city
committee : Ichabod Goodwin, Christopher S. Toppan,
William P. Jones, Jonathan M. Tredick, Henry F. Wendell,
Albert R. Hatch, Geo. N. Carleton, Samuel R. Cleaves,
Richard Jenness^ William H. Sise, George L. Tread we 11,
Samuel Storer, John Buzzell, William P. Walker.

This Committee of Arrangements subdivided their duties
as follows :

On Invitation and Reception — The whole board of Comraittee.

On Conference with Boston and New- York Committees — Messrs. Colcord,

Jenkins, Goodwin, Toppan and Tredick.
On Marshals and Escort— Messrs. Jenkins, Colcord, Laighton, Jenness, Sise

and Hatch.

On Banners— Messrs. Claggett, Band, Stackpole, Cleaves, Wendell and Walker.
On Music — Messrs. Haven, Todd, Brown, Carleton, Bazzell and Hatch.
On Bells, Salute and Fireworks— Messrs. Knowlton, Gerrish, Dame, Wendell

and Walker.
On Location of Tent — Messrs. Haven, Laighton, Claggett, Storer, Carletoc

and Treadwell.
On Collation — Messrs. Brown, Rand, Claggett, Laighton, Knowlton, Cleaves,.

Jones, Storer,. Carleton, Treadwell and Toppan.
On Toasts — Messrs. Hatch, Storer and Haven.
On Speakers — Messrs. Brown, Haven, Laighton, Jenkins, Hatch, Sise and

Buzzell.

On Arches — Messrs. Cleaves, Treadwellr Sise, Storer and Wendell.
On Issue of Tickets — Messrs. Goodwin, Havenr Jones, Jenness, Hatch, Jenkins

and Rowe.

On Levee — The Committtee on Collation.
On Finance — Messrs. Goodwin, Haven and Todd.

The arrangements having been made thrrs far in Ports
mouth, a general meeting of the Sons of Portsmouth in
Boston was called to be held at Cochituate Hall on the
10th of June. As there was something poetic in the idea of
the visit, the muses were invoked to give interest to the
occasion. . The appeal went forth as follows :

Come rally, boys ! Awake, awake !

Hear old affection on you calling ;
Tour Childhood's Home appeal doth make.

On willing ears may it be falling ;
It calls you from- your busy care,

To meet her in her pleasant places,
Her old regard again to share,

Mid smiles from " old familiar faces."

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Each nook and haunt remembered well

Will send its hundreds forth to meet yon,
Joy's loudest note will widely swell,

Full many a smiling face will greet you ;
And hell and gun and flame and tongue

Will blend their notes in peal sonorous.
Familiar as of old they rung,

And " WELCOME ! 'WELCOME !" be the chorus.

Crowd not the generous impulse back

That prompts the thought in which you gather,
'Twere well to leave life's dusty track "

And turn in filial duty hither —
To once again in union join

Mid scenes that know your life's unsealing,
And at the well-remembered shrine

Kindle anew the heart's true feeling.

The assemblage at Cochituate Hall was large. It was
called to order by Isaac W. Frye, when Francis E. Parker
(son of the late Rev. Dr. Nathan Parker, of Portsmouth,)
was chosen President, Samuel H. Gookin and M. P. Ken-
nard, Vice Presidents, and John E. Abbott and Theodore S.
Harris, Secretaries.

The President made some brief and pertinent remarks
upon taking the chair, after which a committee consisting of
Messrs. George A. Fields, William A. Kennard, Alfred M.
Beck, William E. Abbott and Andrew C. Mudge, was
appointed to retire and select a Committee of Arrangements.

Mr. James T. Fields presented the following resolutions :

Resolved, That the natives and former residents of Portsmouth, N. H. now
living in Boston and its vicinity, join in an excursion to that city on the
approaching 4th of July.

Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangements chosen by this meeting to
carry into effect the business matters of that day, be instructed to convey by
advertisement or otherwise, to all natives and former residents of Portsmouth,
wherever they may now be living, an invitation to unite with us of Boston in
our anticipated gathering among the haunts of our early days.

Resolved, That we who are here assembled to-night will take an active part
in aiding our committee in their endeavors to make the coming anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence a day*of unalloyed happiness to all who
have left, but have not forgotten the good old town^of Portsmouth.

Mr. Fields made a short and exceedingly apt and appro
priate speech, and was followed by Rev. T. Starr King,
Samuel H. Gookin, Charles L. Woodbury, Matthew Hale
Smith and Daniel R. Sheafe. All the speeches were spirited.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted.

Mr. Kennard, from the Committee to nominate a Com
mittee of Arrangements, reported the following list:

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S. W. Waldron, William F. Parrott, George W. Bazin,

Isaac W. Frye, A very Plumer. Jr. James T. Fields,

William H. Hill, M. P. Kennard, James H. Weeks,

B. P. Shillaber, John H. Cheever, J. Monroe Gookin,

Theodore S. Harris, John E. Abbott, Gideon Beck,

True M.Bali, Garland Turell, Josiah G. Batchelder,

John L. Badger, Albert Remick, Jacob Wendell, Jr.

Charles L. Woodbnry, H. H. Tnttle, John D. Parker.
Alfred C. Mudge,

The report was accepted, and it was also voted that the
government of the meeting be added to the committee, and
the meeting was adjourned.

At the adjourned meeting, June 28th, held at Cochituate Hall, Francis
E. Parker, the President, took the chair at 8 o'clock, and informed the
meeting of the action of its committee, — of the half-price arrangements
which had been made with the Eastern Railroad, which run from the
Thursday before to the Friday after the Fourth of July, — of the exten
sive preparations made by the people of Portsmouth to welcome back the
fugitive members of their families, upon this interesting occasion, and
enforcing emphatically upon the " Sons," in view of the general invitation
which had been extended to them at home, that they should not be recre
ant to such a call.

Mr. Charles Tappan, the eldest of the company, made some very inte
resting colloquial remarks, detailing his experience, as a resident of Ports
mouth in years gone by, where he spent the period which an elegant
novel-writer has described as " the pleasantest time of our lives" — the
period of courtship,— and where he married his wife, and laid the founda
tion of his future fortune. Mr. Marble and Mr. Adams made some inci
dental remarks, and Mr. Matthew Hale Smith made an earnest, eloquent
and patriotic speech, upon the interesting occasion which drew the Sons
of Portsmouth together, and the patriotic associations which were con
nected with the Day.

It was stated that the tickets for the excursion were open, and were
intended, not only for the children of Portsmouth— sons and daughters —
as well as for the former residents, but for their whole families. There
was no limit whatever, which by any implication could exclude any one,
who from any association with Portsmouth Avas joining in the excursion.
The invitation extended to all.

COMMITTEES.

On Finance — James H. Weeks, John D. Parker, J. Munroe Gookin.
On Railroad — I. W. Frye, G. W. Bazin, J. Munroe Gookin.
On Banners and Decora tions— James T. Fields, James H. Weeks, S. H. Gookin .
On Advertising and Printing— G. W. Bazin, H. H. Tuttle, B. P. Shillaber.
On Towns and Corporations— James T. Fields, J. H. Cheever, J. G. Batchelder.
On Music — M. P. Kennard, John E. Abbott, Theo. S. Harris.
On Subscriptions— John H. Cheever, Jacob Wendell, Jr., John E. Abbott, Theo.

S. Harris, Albert Remick.

On Military Escort— J. H. Weeks, John H. Cheever, M. P. Kennard.
On Marshal and Treasurer — John D. Parker, M. P. Kennard, John E. Abbott,

Isaac W. Frye, J. G. Batchelder.

The assembly adjourned to meet at Creek Bridge, or " Frenchman's
Lane," where those who went down on the morning of the Fourth were
landed from the cars.

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In the City of New- York, on the 13th of June, a meeting
of the residents who were natives of Portsmouth, was called
at the Irving House. There was a goodly gathering on the
occasion. Hon. W. A. Walker was called to the chair, and
Mr. W. G. Wendell was appointed Secretary. A list of
names was opened, and some seventy or eighty Portsmouth
men were found to be present. After the invitation of the
municipality of Portsmouth to the Sons in that place to join
them in the celebration of the approaching anniversary of
our National Independence had been read, a committee con
sisting of Messrs. G. F. Peterson, J. Franklin Pierce and
James L. Wise, was appointed to report a proper course of
proceedings in relation to the invitation — to report at a meet
ing to be held at the Irving house on the next Friday evening.

The adjourned meeting on the 17th of June was well
attended, and enthusiastic. A large company was made up
for the excursion, to be attended by a band of music.

In the City of Lowell, a preliminary meeting of the natives
and former residents of Portsmouth was held at committee
room in City Hall building, Monday evening, June 13th, to
make arrangements, in connection with the Sons of Ports
mouth resident in Boston, for a visit to their " old home" on
ihe coming anniversary of the 4th of July, in conformity with
an invitation from the city authorities and citizens generally
of that ancient town. Oliver March, Esq. was chosen chair
man, and B. H. Pen hallow, Secretary, The following reso
lution was unanimously adopted :

Resolved, That we accept with pleasure the invitation of the city authorities
of Portsmouth to pass the approaching Fourth of July with the " old folks at
home," and will use our best endeavors to procure a full delegation, on the
occasion, from this city of our adoption.

A committee was appointed to make such arrangements as they may
deem proper, and report at a future meeting. The following are the
names of the gentlemen composing said committee, viz.:
Oliver March, J. G. Pcabody, J. L. Huntress,

Hiram Dennett, Horatio Fogg, Samuel Kinsman,

Alfred Gilman, Joseph Raynea, Joseph H. Towne,

W. G. Wise, B. T. Hardy, Thomas Ordway,

M. G. Howe, R. N. Tullock, J. A. Knowles, "

J.P.Walker, L. R. Streeter, Charles H. Dennett,

B. H. Penhallow, Leonard Huntress.

Subsequently a committee of conference, consisting of three gentle
men, to whom the chairman of the meeting was added, was appointed to
confer with the Boston committee. The committee consisted of Messrs.
W. G. Wise, J. P. Walker, Alfred Gilman, and Oliver March.

After these and other meetings in the above and several other places,
the arrangements were completed.

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The first formal reception of the returned Sons was on Saturday morn
ing, July 2d, -when the New- York delegation, attended by the band of
the U. S. ship North-Carolina, "were received at Frenchman's Lane at 10
o'clock. The Portsmouth City Greys, under Capt. Towle, received them
by a salute, and escorted them to the City Hall. On Saturday afternoon
the New- York Sons gave a dinner to the city authorities and invited
guests, at the Rockingham House, at which much good feeling prevailed,
and some short addresses were delivered by Hon. William A. Walker,
who presided, and by Messrs. Ichabod Goodwin, Abner Greenleaf, and
others.

On the morning of the Fourth, the pent-up fires which had been kept
in with some difficulty over the Sabbath, burst forth before the early dawn.
Although there were some apprehensions of a rainy day, there was in
consequence no dampness of the spirits. The morning passed off with
its guns, its bells, its squibs, and its crackers ; and moving among the
masses was seen an uncouth procession of Fantastics, a burlesque of a
military training. The pompous reviewing officers attended in a carriage,
and attracted a large share of public curiosity. Following it was a party
from the country, whose steed exceeded not the speed the law allows,
although " moral suasion," in the shape of two ears of corn fastened two
inches in front of his nose, was evidently to the beast a great incentive to
exertion. Close following, as a natural accompaniment to a " training,"
was a band of sable minstrels, whose performances, which created much
merriment, concluded with the " Camptown Races," in which they dis
tanced all competitors. There was in this exhibition nothing to offend
the strictest delicacy, which has not always been the case in these exhibi
tions in other places.

The boys made a laughable exhibition as " Odds and Ends," in which
Mrs. Partington and Ike, Lucy Long and her baby, were conspicuous
features. They were about most of the forenoon, and their grotesque
appearance elicited great merriment.

At ten o'clock there was a general gathering of the citizens, military,
&c. at the west end of Islington street, from the Creek to Frenchman's
Lane, to receive the visitors from Boston, Lowell, Newburyport, &c
About a dozen well-filled cars soon arrived, and were saluted by a dis
charge of artillery by the Rockingham Guards. After the friendly salu
tations with old acquaintances who gathered thick around, the Boston
delegation, accompanied by the Boston Brass Baud, were marshalled in

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ranks. Advancing in front of the centre, the Mayor of Portsmouth, in

behalf of the City Council and citizens, gave a welcome in the following

terms:

Sons of Portsmouth, residents of Boston, New York, tyc.

On this anniversary of our National Independence, we bid
you an earnest, heartfelt welcome to our city and to your
birth place. Words are not adequate fully to express what
our hearts feel. Never perhaps has an event been anticipated
with more grateful joy by all our citizens without distinction
of sect or party, than this your return to the scenes of your
childhood, and I am but uttering the feelings which swell in
ten thousand hearts at this very hour, when I say, welcome,
Sons of Portsmouth, welcome home!

Some of you have been long away. You have passed
through many and great changes. You have become resi
dents in larger cities, cities of greater political and commer
cial importance, — you have risen to posts of honor and
influence there, and we rejoice in your success. But we
have your presence with us here to-day as a proof that no
change or elevation has obliterated the memory of this your
native city, or cooled the ardor of your affections for this the
home from which you went forth. You rniss to-day many
a familiar countenance and many a well known form. But
you stand amidst the scenes of your earliest days, you walk
the same streets you then trod, look upon the homes of your
infancy, upon the school houses in which you were first
taught, upon the churches in which you first worshipped
God, and upon the graves of your fathers. Bound by so
many tender and hallowed associations to this city, it can
never be that it will cease to have a place in your memory
and in your hearts. And surely, as we look upon you here
gathered, surely may Portsmouth be proud of her sons. And
if she cannot vie with other cities in the rapidity of her growth,
in the extent of her commerce, or in her political influence,
she may safely challenge any city in the land to a comparison
with her in what is of far more worth, the virtue of her daugh
ters, the enterprise of her sons.

Again we bid you welcome, one and all, welcome home !
May the scenes of this day rekindle in your affections remem
brances of days long passed, and be the theme of pleasant
memories for days and years to come.

After cheering had subsided, Chief Marshal Samuel H. Gookin, of the
Boston delegation, responded as follows :

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Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen : —

It needs no reply from me to assure you of our grateful
thanks for the generous welcome you have offered us to-day,
We expected that you \vould_be glad to see your wandering
sons home again, and that you would give us a hearty greet
ing, but we did not expect that you would reserve for us a
reception surpassing all others in elegant decoration and rich
display, and better far than that, in that richer, grander dis»
play of feeling which you assure us is now springing from
the hearts of all your citizens.

This day has in itself enough of glorious association to
make our meeting one of interest ; but to my mind it is hal
lowed and made more glorious when we make it the occa
sion for such a gathering as this. We were told by one
whose memory will ever be dear to our hearts, to celebrate
the day with "bonfires and illuminations." Before we left
our native town, it accorded fully with our feelings to give a
cordial assent to this suggestion ; but now, when the duties
of life, which multiply with our years, have taken from us
something of our young enthusiasm, we feel it a more fitting
tribute to the day, to join in a celebration like this, which will
rekindle the early association of home, and bring those who
have sought their fortune abroad to associate together in a
closer brotherhood, which will show to us that you continue
to feel an interest in our welfare, and watch our progress ;
and we trust which will show to you that your sons abroad
have done something to add to the fair fame of our dear old
native town.

It is xvell that you should remind us of those sound influ
ences of our early life to which we are so largely indebted
for whatever of position or success we may have attained. —
The home, the schools, the churches, aye and the graves of
our kindred. How many pleasant and hallowed memories
spring from the heart as we repeat them ! — We think of them
with affectionate interest, pride and gratitude, and return to
day with grateful hearts to thank our common mother for all
that she has done for us. The occasion is suggestive and
fruitful, but I must not indulge in any extended remarks. —
This is not the time or the place : — at a later period in the
day we have those in our delegation who will better express
to you than I can our heartfelt satisfaction at being here, and
our grateful thanks for the splendid and affectionate reception
you have tendered us. [Cheers.]

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The Procession, formed in the following order, commenced its move
ment into the city. It was half a mile in length.

Andrew J. Beck, Chief Marshal of Civic Procession, his Aids and
Assistants being John H. Jackson, Charles W. Marden, Robert Lefavour,
William H. Sise, George L. Treadwell, Henry F. Wendell, Benjamin B.
Swasey, Amos Trott, and James W. Lefavour.

FIRST DIVISION.

Aid. Chief Marshal. Aid.

East Boston Brass Band.
First Artillery Company, under command of Capt. George W. Towle.

Committee of Arrangements.
Mayor and ex-Mayors of Portsmouth.

Aldermen and City Clerk.

President and Members of the Common Council and Clerk.
Assessors, Overseers and Superintendent of the Poor.

All other City Officers.

Preceptor Harris, escorted by his former pupils.

Sheriff of Rockinghatn and Deputies.

Members of the State Legislature.

Reverend Clergy.

Aid. Marshal. Aid.

Officers of the Army, Navy and Marine of the United States.

Naval Constructor and Civil Engineer.
Officers of the United States and State Courts, and City Justices.

Collector and Deputy Collector of the Port of Portsmouth.
Naval Officer and Surveyor of the Port of Portsmouth, and Officers of the

Customs.

Postmaster and Navy Agent.
Members of other city and town governments.

SECOND DIVISION.
Aid. Marshal. Aid.

Bond's Boston Cornet Band.
First Company of Light Infantry, under command of Maj. A. J. Hill.

Sons of Portsmouth resident in Boston.

[The Boston Delegation was led by Samuel H. Gookin, Chief Marshal.
The other Marshals were — Jacob Wendell, Jr., J. F. Shapley, Aids.
H. H. Tuttle, Alfred Mudge, John D. Parker, George A. Fields, J. II .
Buftbrd, William H. Kennard, William E. Abbott, Theodore S. Harris,
Charles M. Foss, A. F. Sise, James F. Hickey, Albert Remick.]

Sons of Portsmouth resident in Lowell and other places.
Aid. Marshal. Aid.

New- York Band of Music.

Sons of Portsmouth resident in New- York and Philadelphia.
[The New-York Delegation was led by Marshal Archibald A. Peterson.]

Citizens generally.
Company of Continentals.

Cavalcade.

Aid. Marshal. Aid.

INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION.

Saco Brass Band. 2

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Thomas Norton, Chief Marshal of Industrial Procession, having as Aids
and Assistants, Joseph D. Akerman, Abraham Q. Wendell, Frank W.
Milksr, Christopher C. Jackson, James M. Locke, Benjamin M. Parker,
and Augustus W. Simpson.

The Industrial Procession, although not so extensive as in 1851, was
an interesting expose of Portsmouth skill and manufacture.

Sflip BUILDING. — The first car, drawn by four mammoth oxen, was
preceded by the Saco Cornet Band. Even the heavy oxen seemed
inspirited by their strains, and stepped quicker and merrier, to the sur
prise of those accustomed to their dull wont. The exterior of the car was
ornamented with the models of numerous vessels, schooners, brigs, bark^,
and ships, all built by George Raynes, dating from 1829 to 1853, with
their names and the period of their completion, as follows:

Ship Athens,

Mary-Kingsland,

John-Taylor,

Kalamazoo,

Glendoveer,

Venice,

Finland,

Thomas-Wright,

Kate-Hun tor,

Tons. Evtti.

575 1S3D

797 1839
748 1840

798 1840
496 1841
617 1841
650 1844
624 1845
732 1846

Mortimer-Livingston, 748 1847

Centurion, 745 1847

Siara, 727 1847

Jersey, 850 1818

James-Brown, 997 1849

North-Atlantic, 799 1849

Roman, 775 ISoO

Constantine, 1162 1850

George-Raynes, 1000 1850

Sea-Serpent, 1402 1850

Witch-of-the-Wave,1499 18-51

Wild-Pigeon, 997 1851

Orient, 1561 1852

Tinqua, 669 1852

Wild-Duck, 861 1853

Webster, 1700 1853

Following this car were a company of ship carpenters from Mr. Raynes'
yard, who were entertained by Geo. Raynes, jr. and Joseph Perkins,
(foreman of the yard) with a collation at the ship-yard, after the procession
closed.

Joaeph Perkins was Chief Marshal of the ship carpenters, assisted by
Geo. Raynes, Jr., Daniel Moulton, Marshall W. Post, Samuel G. Folsom.

BLACKSMITHS. — Next, under the appropriate motto, "Sons of Vulcan —
Arms of Iron, Nerves of Steel" came a spacious Blacksmith's Shop, dec-
oruted with spruce and flowers, drawn by four horses. In it were Messrs.
Hide and Jackson, the projectors, aided by Mr. S. Willey. The forpe
Avas in blast, and with the music of the hammer on the anvil, added no little
to the bustle of the day. Their shop bore one other motto — "Our forgery
ix no counterfeit."

Tons.

Built.

Schr. Lucy,

89

1829

Pacific,

69

1829

Leader,

137

1830

BrelilTa S Twins-

300

1851

Br

5 Planet,

129

1828

Franklin,

198

1832

Helen-Mar,

194

1835

Ba

k Olof-Wyk,

314

1840

Elvira-Harbeck,

350

1848

Sh

p Alexander,

398

1830

Nestor,

397

1831

Harriet-&-Jessie,

4-53

1832

Pontiff,

495

1833

Rockir.gham,

514

1833

Portsmouth,

520

1834

SusannahCumming,
Harbinger,

544

262

1834
1835

Hindoo,

582

1835

Isaac-Newton,

600

1836

John-Cumin ings,

721

1836

Lancashire,

661

1836

Henry,

434

1837

Nicholas-Biddle,

784

1837

Charles,

486

1838

Isaac Allerton,

595

1838

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CALKKRS. — The next vehicle was a Boat on wheels, with oakum, pitch
kettle and fire : drawn by one horse, and commanded by S. P. Wilson,
Shipwright and Calker.

CORDAGE-MAKERS. — A car from Hie Portsmouth Cordage Factory of
Messrs. J. Johnson & J. N. Handy, came next, containing samples of
their superior cordage, and also men at work spinning and laying up lines.
Although this u»ay be called street t/arn, it is far more substantial than
anything else that bears the name. Mottoes : '' Portsmouth Cordage like
Portsmouth Ships, A No. 1," " Portsmouth for Cordage fe*rs no rival."

SEAMEN. — S'kip George Washington, Capt. Harrat, passed along the
street, propelled by a three-horse power. The pilot was William Pierce.
The ship was fully rigged, twenty-six feet in height, had a crew of ten, a
small black cook was seated on the caboose: two swivels mounted on the
bows were freqaently discharged, and the wLole was an object of much
interest.

JOINKRS. — The House Carpenters' and Joiners' Shop was drawn by
four oxen, and contained Mr. T. Norton and several busy workmen active
with their planes, saws, &c.

PAINTERS.— The House, Sign, and Ornamental Painters occupied the
next car, drawn by two horses. Messrs. Bufford, llowell, and Rand were
on hand for a job at either " house, ship, or sign and ornamental painting."
They exhibited grand specimens of home skill in the paintings of Wash
ington, the Hydra, various portraits, &c. They doubtless prepared many
sentimental mottoes for others ; they overlooked their own car in this
respect, although they personally exhibited an unwritten one — "Industry.'

CABINET-MAKERS.— Cabinet Work, by all our Cabinet-makers —
" Luxurious, Useful, and Ornamental" — occupied the next car, drawn
by four horses. Messrs. C. E. Lord and J. G. Folsom w«re busily em
ployed in the workshop, while Messrs. E. Lord and A. T. Joy occupied
the salesroom. Among the mottoes were, " We fear no competition,'
" Indispensable to comfort."

MASONS. — The Bricklayers and Stucco-workers were in a car drawn
by four oxen, with a brick house going up, and on the front, this inscrip
tion, " Our work stands the fire." Inside, the men were plastering, and
laid a good quantity of brick during the progress of the procession, al
though the work did not make very rapid headway. In the after part of
the car was a centre-piece of stucco-work enclosing the sign, " Masons
and Stucco- workers." The operators were Messrs. S. Reynolds, S. Tre-
fethen, Isaac Hayes, and George Hayes.

TINMEN, &c. — Stove, Sheet-iron, and Tin-ware Manufactory, furnished
by Messrs. Carleton and Chapman, on a pretty large scale, with a fire, and
the Tinmen, Messrs. I. Dow and J. E. Chapman, at work, looking quite
natural. We noticed Chilson's Furnace, by Carleton, and prominent in
the display the scalloped dishes made by Chapman were distributed to
the spectators. The thop was drawn by four oxen. Then came Chap
man's Mammoth Coffee-pot in a neat wagon drawn by one horse.

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CORDWAINERS. — The airy Shoemakers' Shop, next in order, drawn
Ly four oxen, was built by Messrs. Hill & Carr, John Slavers, J. C. Carr,
and Oren Bragdon. Workmen. — From Hill & Carr's : James S. Harts
horn (foreman,) Henry Akerman, George Butler, Michael McCarthy.
From J. C. Carr's : John Buzzell (foreman,) J. S. Twist, James Clasby.
Joseph Pettigrew.. The articles, tastefully displayed, were from the stores-
of Messrs. Hill & Carr and J. C. Carr.

SAD-D-LERS, — J. Larrabee, saddler, a vehicle with handsome specimens
of work. The beautiful decorations of many of the Marshals' horses were
a more extended part of his dispi'ay.

GOLI> AND* &JLVER SMITHS. — Charles T, Emery exposed on a conical
set of shelves, in a carriage witb one horse, a brilliant display of silver
ware. This- was a neat and attractive feature of the procession.

REPORTER*— Barouche drawn by two grey horses, and filled to over
flowing with editors, reporters, &c. containing representations of the four
papers in this city, Bosion Journal, Times, and Transcript, New York
Herald, &c. Labels en each side, "The Quill." This was an erratic carr
and often shot out of its place in the Industrial procession, to see what
was going on elsewhere — being as often loudly cheered wherever it went.

PRINTERS, — Next followed the Printing Office, dressed in spruce,
drawn by four oxen. The old revolutionary Press with the large leather
balls, spoke in its impressive silence of th« "times which- tried naen's
souls." Its feeble sinews could bat Uly bear the impatient labors of our
modern children of progress, and sat in awkward dignity beside the rapid
lluggle's Press, which by moderate exertion was satiating an eager crowd
with its effusions. Beside these, two small presses were in operation. —
The compositor at his case and the editor in his chair furnished ths com
plement of the "press gang," while the telegraph man had his post among
the printers, his wires extending overhead. The bust of Franklin, labelled
"Franklin the Printer," surmounted the old Pre?s. Each wheel of the
vehicle was decorated with mottoes: upon each hub read — "The Art of
Prmtiny gives" — while every spoke, as rays from this centre, finished the
sentence with one of the following words : — Power, Morality. Educa
tion, Tinw, Advancement, Light, Wisdom, Progress, Economy, InteUigencer
Loner, Reliyio-n, Knowledge, Patriotism.

The inscriptions about the office were — "The Press ;" "The disciples of
Franklin are devotees of Freedom /" "Freedom of the Press indispensable
to civic Utterly ;." "The tyrant's foe — ihe peoples friend ;" ".4 specimen of
the most effective Gun of the Revolution, and of thaw tvhojired the paper
bullets ;" "July 4, 1116— the birth-day of liberty ? and attached to the
press — "The Lever that moves the world."

Lewis W. Brewster, William W. Dow, and James W. TiMikerman from
Journal office; Samuel Gray, George Runnels,. James Town«endr from
Chronicle office ; George A. Manent, Telegraph- Operator.

EXPRESSMEN. — Jackson & Co. with two wagons, one horse each, loaded'
up with packages.

APOTHECARIES.— J. H. Thacher furnished a labelled and" decorated
wagon, with lozenges, which were distributed ad libitvw.

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W. R. Preston, labelled wagon, with packages of medicines, goods, &c.
among them "Preston's Catholicon" was quite prominent. The hearse
horse and driver were employed — intended to indicate that the free use of
the Catholicon would turn the hearse and driver to a living business.

AGRICULTCRK was represented by Mr. Drake, in a one horse wagon,
decorated, and well fitled with the implements of'huebandry.

GROCEKS.— Represented by Mathes & Varrell, 48 Market street, with
a large load of goods, for distribution to customers : drawji by one horse.

This closed the procession.

The Precesiion thus organized moved through Islington, Congress,
Market, Deer, Vaughan, Congress, Pleasant, Water, State, Summer,
Middle to Court street, where it arrived at half-past one o'clock.

The houses on the streets through which it passed were in many places
tastefully decorated, and numerous arches were thrown over the streets.
The following are all the decorations of which we took note :

ISLINGTON (STREET.

Rufus K. Oxford, nearly opposite Frenchman's Lane, had the front of
his premises handsomely decorated.

The premises of Hosea Crane decorated.

F. S. Jarvis's residence, No. 75, decorated.

Mr. Waddell, No. 70, had the front of his residence neatly fitted up.

William Plaisted, No. 69, had a couple of tri-colored flags suspended
across the street, neatly trimmed, bearing the inscription :
" Welcome — All Welcome Home"

Andrew H. Jones, No. 59, gate decorated with flags, evergreens, &c.

Near Thomas Martin's was displayed a beautiful Gothic arch prepared
by the neighbors, reaching across the street, handsomely decked with
evergreens, festoons, and flowers, and pendant from the centre a fine
'basket of various flowers. On the west side,

" This Western Avenue of your Departure is open to Welcome you."

On the reverse,
" Westward our City's Arms extend to Welcome Home her Sons."

Hon. Ichabod Goodwin, No. 34, a native of North-Berwick, had erected
:across the street in front of his residence a very fine arch, handsomely
trimmed with evergreen, wreaths of flowers, &c. It bore the inscription :

'On the west side,

"Juhjl, 1853. The Adopted Welcome You"

•On the east, " July 4, 1776."

Opposite his residence, on a beautiful green plot, this gentleman had
constructed a convenient platform for the benefit of spectators assembled
to witness the procession as it passed. The whole affair was highly cred-
; table to his liberality and good taste.

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Mrs. Halliburton *s mansion, No. 25, was neatly dressed, and ornamented
in the centre with a fine portrait of that well-remembered patriot of the
revolution, Gapt. Thomas Manning. This portrait in front of the balcony,
and the left hand of the lady of the mansion resting upon the portrait of
Washington (her two beautiful grandchildren waving flags on either side,)
formed one of the prettiest and most striking tableau exhibited.

Capt. Lewis Barnes, No. 23, displayed the inscription :

" Welcome to the Sons of Old Strawberry Bank I Welcome to its Formei.

Residents ! Welcome to All ! Sons of Portsmouth, be ever

prompt in Virtue's Cause ; be strony for God, your

Country, and Yourselves !"

C. TV. Brewster, No. 21, displayed a national flag, gathered in the-
centre, under which was the inscription :

" United as these Glorious Stripes, we give our <H!P «^."

The residence of James M. Garr, Esq. No. 15, was well decorated.
The front yard of Ira Haselton, Esq. displayed arches of evergreen.

John Knowlton, Esq> No. 10, had his doorway finely trimmed with,
folds of blue and white cambric, and displayed the inscription :

" Our Sons — We Welcome you Home on this Joyful A nniversary."

Joseph M. Edmonds, Esq. No. 9, residence decorated in very good taste.

Mrs. Thompson, No. 2, entrance tastefully arranged with arches of
evergreen and flowers.

CAEOT STREET.

At the junction of Cabot and Austin streets was a beautiful quadruple
arch, surmounted by a representation of the Goddess of Liberty, and
beneath her in evergreen wreaths the titles of all the States in the Con
federacy. The arch formed a most beautiful sight. Jt cost about $100,
and was erected by subscription among the patriotic residents of the
neighborhood. It was designed by Mr. Reed V. Rand-

CONGRESS STREET.

The Franklin House was decked with flags pending from each window.
Store of Samuel Donnell, No. &, evergreen arches in front.

William R. Preston, in Congress Block, displayed scrolls in front of
his store, surmounted by the bust of Webster. The inscriptions were :

" Wander where you will, there's no place UK?, home."
" Sons of Portsmouth, welcome, thrice welcome to the scenes of your

childhood !"
Under a bust of Webster :

" They come not all home ,- they still live."
" / came here a stranger, and with your Kindred I found a happy home."

The Messenger office exhibited the motto :

" Young, but precocious — welcome ! boys, welcome /"

DANIEL STREET.

The office of the Gazette was appropriately decked, and displayed a
handsomely trimmed American flag, with the inscription :

" N. H. Gazette— established 1756, by Daniel Fowled

The residence of Col. John N. Sherburne was handsomely decorated.
The house of Mr. A. Staples was well fitted up.

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MARKET STREET.

Market street, from Market Square to Bow street, was
entirely filled with uniform groined arches, thirteen in
number, thirty feet high, tastefully decorated with evergreen.
From the apex of each of these depended the name of one
of the original thirteen States.

A separate arch was thrown over Market street, bordering
on Market Square. This was tastefully decorated, and bore
on a banner ten yards long, in large letters, the following:

AS CORNELIA, THE ROMAN MOTHER. EXHIBITED TO HER GUEST TILE
YOUNG GRACCHII, JUST RETURNED FROM SCHOOL, & EXULTINGLY
EXCLAIMED, "BEHOLD! THESE ARE MY JEWELS !"— SO PORTSMOUTH
PROUDLY EXULTS TO-DAY IN HEP. RETURNED SONS, AND SAYS,—
"LO! THESE ARE MY ORNAMENTS!1'

Beneath the State arches, about eight feet from the ground,
were the following inscriptions. A few of those reported at
the north end were prepared, but not in season to be put up :

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

Portsmouth cannot keep her Boys :

The World
cannot do without them.

MARKET STREET :

The School for many of the largest

cities.

MASSACHUSETTS.

America !

Thy flag now floats highest under
Heaveu.

Agriculture, Commerce, and the

Mechanic Arts :
supporting not supplanting each other.

RHODE-ISLAND.

Oh ! the blessings of a Home

where
Young and Old mix kindly !

New- York, Boston, and Lowell:
Reuben, Gad, and the tribe of Manas-
seh returned to claim their inheritance.

CONNECTICUT.

The Pilgrim spirit hath not fled.

Old Portsmouth '

Where'er we roam, our hearts still
fondly cling to thee.

NEW-YORK.

Fond memory

brings the light of other days
around me.

Peace,

Love and Knowledge :
The civilizing three.

NEW-JERSEY.

The Heroes of the Revolution :

We
Venerate their Memory.

Absence strengthen* friendship.

where the last recollections were

kindly.

PENNSYLVANIA.

New- York, Boston, and other cities :

their loss
to-day is our gain.

Hurrati for old New-Hampshire,

her Granite Hills at home, and her

Granite Sons from afar.

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DELAWARE.

Old Paved Street :
Its youth renewed.

" Old Strawberry Bank"

taking account of stock.

July 4, 1853.

MARYLAND.

— The Union —

'T is a tower of strength, that puny
arms may threat.

The Daughters at home

welcome
the Sons from abroad.

VIRGINIA.

Market Street Boys :

the men
in every market.

A New-Hampshire Boy

guides
the " Ship of State."

NORTH- CAROLINA.

Portsmouth mechanics, like

Portsmouth ships,

\vork A. 1.

The Portsmouth Boys abroad :

Absent,
but not forgotten.

SOUTH-CAROLINA.

Daniel Webster's Office

No. 10 Market st.
In this room the intellect was nur
tured which has expanded
over the world.

Lafayette, Louis Phillippe, Pierce,
Polk, Monroe, Adams, Washington

have passed this street ;

None have met a more cordial welcome

than the Sons of old Portsmouth.

GEORGIA.

The blunt Yeoman,

Btout and true, will speak unto

princes unabashed.

The Sons of Portsmouth :

Pioneers in the field of American

Enterprise.

There was also another separate arch at the north termina
tion of the arcade, which bore a long banner with this
inscription :

THE DAY OF JUBILEE HAS COME ! SONS OF PORTSMOUTH, WELCOME

HOME:

[The Market Street Committee on Construction were Messrs. G. L. Tread-
well, H. A. Bigelow, Luther Dame, Philipp Wenzell, and Charles W. Kimball.
The latter gentleman waa the chief architect. The Committee on Mottoes were
Messrs. Thomas Tredick, N. K. Raynes, Ira B. Fonda, J. A. Grace, and Albert
Laighton.j

Haven Block, Nos. 48 and 52, was elegantly decorated with evergreen
and six arches in front, by Messrs. Mathes & Varrell and Tilton & Blais-
dell. Numerous mottoes were displayed, the most conspicuous of which
were the following :

Hail, thou auspicious, glorious morn,
Wluch gave the British chaps their corn !
JULY 4, 1776.

And now we hail the glorious day

Which first gave liberty its sway.

JULY 4, 1853.

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DEER STREET.

Peter Jcnness and Mrs. Pray exhibited handsome decorations at their
respective residences.

VATJGHAN STREET.

At the junction of this street with Deer street a noble arch spanned the
road. It was finely decorated, and was designed by T. P. Moses.
On the south sid'e,

" No place like home : rejoice with us."
On the reverse side, " We bid you welcome."

Robert Gray, at No. 20, had his gateway handsomely trimmed.

PLEASANT STREET.

There were handsome arches in Pleasant street, opposite the Mercan
tile Library Association Rooms— three arches in one.

At the junction of Pleasant and State streets, was a splendid double
arch, springing from the four corners of the two streets, the whole trimmed
with evergreens, flowers and small flags, while the stars and stripes waved
proudly from the top, and on the one side the cross of St. George, and on
the other the Hungarian tri-color. This pleasing affair was erected by
H. F. Wendell, E. A. Moulton, and J. H. Thacher.

Mr. John K. Pickering, No. 36, had his house most beautifully dressed
with American flags in folds and festoons. On a fine shield, bordered
with oak leaves, was a pair of hands clasped, encircling which were the
words :

" Boston, New-York, Portsmouth — Wherever we may roam, there is no
place like home."

Jacob Wendell, No. 41, displayed a miniature ship, made by an absent
" son," under which the words :

" Welcome the present and remember the absent."

At the corner of Gates street a handsome decoration by sons of A. F.
Nowell.

Mr. James F. Shores, No. 46, exhibited the motto :

" A proud day for the ' Old Folks at Home' "

Abraham Wendell, at No. 47, displayed a bronzed eagle, holding in his
talons an American flag.

The mansion of I. Rollins, Esq. No. 49, presented a handsome display
of flowers in the open window.

South Mill Bridge was adorned by three beautiful arches, the centre
bearing on one side the motto :

" The Spirit of '7G lingers yet.1'
On the reverse : " Union and Liberty.'9

The southern arch bore the inscription :

" The King and Field are ours ;

South End claims her share of flowers ."
And the northern :

" South End rejoices o'er her sons,

And proudly bids them welcome home."

WATER PTRKET.

Mrs. Shaw, at No. 55, had her gateway elegantly decorated.
Liberty Bridge displayed four flags and evergreen decorations.

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STATE STREET.

S. G. Folsom, No. 28, displayed the star-spangled banner in front of
bis building.

J. Wesley Moses, Mrs. Ellen Hurd, and Frederick Dodge, had their
residences decorated in good taste.

The house of widow Samuel Pierce, No. 34, decorated by Mrs. White
and the Misses White, presented a fine appearance. To these ladies the
decorations in that neighborhood owe much of their beauty.

James F. Shores, Jr. presented the motto,

" A Hundred Thousand Welcomes ! I could weep,
And I could laugh ; I'm light and heavy. Welcome /"

At the corner of Middle street, Samuel R. Cleaves, at "Glen Cottage,"
decorated his house and grounds in fine taste. Along the sidewalk, and
attached to the shade trees which line it, were eight unique flags, on
which was inscribed the simple word,

" Welcome."

His dwelling was also beautifully hung with evergreens and flowers.

The house of Col. Samuel Gookin, father of the Boston Chief Marshal,
was handsomely decorated, and bore the inscription :
" Early friends again united."

The house of Mrs. Wm. Weeks, whose son was Treasurer of the Boston
delegation, bore on its front the greeting :

" All hail the eventful now.1."

COURT STREET.

George Melcher, at No. 2, had his dwelling fitted up with much taste
with evergreens and flags, and displayed the greeting :
" Home again — home again,
We joy to greet thee here."

Opposite the Court-House, F. W. Fernald had his portico decorated
with flags, festoons of evergreens, wreaths of flowers, &c. arranged with
great taste.

The mansion of E. F. Sise, Esq. on Haymarket Square, was tastefully
decorated with evergreen.

ELM STREET.

An arch extended across the street, trimmed, and surmounted by a
Wild Cat. Mr. Raynes erected the arch, which was a novel display.

DENNETT STREET.

A fine arch was raised at the residence of Solomon Seymour.

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At 3 o'clock, P. M. the sons from abroad, the subscribers at
home, with the military companies and four bands of musi
cians, to the number of nearly two thousand, filled the spa
cious tent and occupied the tables. The tent was located in
the rear of the Court House. The ground was floored over,
and nine tables, 128 feet in length, were erected the whole
length, and another table, over 400 in length, was extended
around the whole. Suspended around the tent appeared in
large elegantly painted inscriptions the names of all
the Presidents of the United States. Spread on the inner
surface of the tent, above and in front of the rostum, were on
one side the State Seal, and on the other, that of the Cityr
handsomely executed, of corresponding size, six or eight feet
in diameter. In various other parts there were banners and
mottoes — and even the numerous boquets on the tables sent
forth not only fragrance, but also choice sentiments, implant
ed there by the ladies, to whom much credit is due for the
good taste displayed, as well as to T. J. Coburn, Esq. for
superintending the general arrangement and providing for so
large a company. The organization was as follows :

President of the day,

HORTON D. WALKER, Mayor of Portsmouth.

Vice Presidents.

Ex-Mayor A. GREENLEAF, FREDERICK W. FERNALD,

Ex-Mayor J. LAIGHTON, THOS. J. WHITTEM,

Ex-Mayor C. S. TOPPAN, GEORGE RAYNES,

1CHABOD GOODWIN, GEO. WALLACE HAVEN,

RICHARD JENNESS, J. M. TREDICK,

WILLIAM P. JONES, ISAAC. F. NELSON,

ALBERT R. HATCH, GEO. W. TOWLE,

JAMES W. EMERY, LYMAN D. SPALDING,

AUGUSTUS JENKINS, JOHN KNOWLTON,

Col. JOSHUA W. PEIRCE, SAMUEL ROWE,

BRACKETT HUTCHINGS, EDMUND M. BROWN,

EDWARD J. LAIGHTON, ALFRED W. HAVEN,

W. H. Y. HACKETT, JOHN HARRATT.

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On the platform were Mayor Walker, presiding, assisted
?oy Alfred W. Haven and Albert R. Hatch, Esqs., Vice
Presidents; Rev. Dr. Burroughs, Chaplain ; 'Samuel Storer,
Esq., Toast Master; Oliver March, Esq. Chairman Lowell
Delegation; Hon. William A. Walker, M. C., President of
New York delegation ; Francis E. Parker, Esq., President of
Boston Delegation ; Wm. C. Harris, Esq. Preceptor ; and
Hon. Wm. Plumer, late M. C. of Epping. The other Vice
Presidents above named, presided at the several tables. T.
G. Senter acted as Assistant Toast Master.

On entering t&e tent the Boston Delegation cheered their
New York brothers, and were answered by a similar cheer
from the New Yorkers, who were, as their President remark
ed, fewer in number, but as lond in thunder.

The President calling the meeting to order, said :

Sons of Portsmouth : —

Allow me to congratulate you on this glorious anniversary
of our National Independence. The long expected day for
which so many hearts were waiting to greet you, has arrived.
Never has an event in the history of Portsmouth been antici
pated with deeper interest by all our citizens than this, your
return to your native city. We have endeavored to make
some little preparation for your reception. Words cannot
express nor our hands execute what our hearts feel on this
occasion ; and I am but feebly uttering the spontaneous feel
ing of every heart when I say, welcome, Sons of Portsmouth !
thrice welcome home ! This is an occasion of deep interest ;
it is a great family gathering; an occasion when man greets
his brother man, friend greets friend, and when all hearts are
happy and united. I had the honor this morning in a brief
address to welcome you home. I now have the pleasure to
welcome you to something more valuable than words, to the
hospitalities of our city. As we would recognize at all times
an overruling hand in the perpetuity of our free institutions
and in the benefits of his providence, let us now give atten
tion while the divine blessing is invoked by the chaplain of
the day, Rev. Dr. Burroughs.

The company then rose, and an eloquent and impressive
prayer was offered.

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PRAYER BY REV. DR. BURROUGHS.

O, ETERNAL GOD, the Founder and Sovereign of the
nations of the earth, we praise thee for having permitted us
to assemble here on this interesting occasion. We thank
thee for all the blessings of this day, and implore thy con-
tinued guidance and favor. We praise thee that, at a favor
able period of civilization, learning, and religion, thou didst
send men of renown to found a colony on the shores of this
western world. We praise thee that when, through thy divine
goodness and favor, that colony became competent by num
bers, strength, experience, and intelligence to assume for
themselves the rights of an independent government, Thou
didst then deliver them from the oppressive yoke of civil
bondage ; didst ordain this day, as the birth-day of their
national existence and freedom j and hast made them a great
and happy nation. We praise thee that, more than two
centuries since, thou didst send bold, able and worthy adven
turers from a remote and enlightened country to this place,
to plant their families here and along the shores of our river,
We praise thee for all the goodly heritage, that our ancestors
have transmitted to us; for the good things, that they have
done ; and for the illustrious men and signal mercies, which
have most eminently honored this town. We praise thee
for the kind and generous feelings, which have actuated and
animated the hearts of very many of the native sons of this
city, residents of other places, to unite in one common pur
pose, with one common and ardent sympathy, to revisit
together, and on this day, with united affection, gratitude,
and mutual love, their native home. We praise thee, that
they are now assembled among us to refresh their memories-
and regale their hearts with the scenes of their childhood ;
with the schools, where they acquired the elements of knowl-
ledge ; with the fields, where they gathered the love of nature ;
with the abodes, precious for parental endearments; and with
the temples, where they first lisped their public devotions and
learned the lessons of divine truth. May their hearts be
deeply touched with emotions of increased gratitude and
affection for all the happy scenes and events connected with
their birthplace. We beseech thee to accompany them with
thy divine favor on their return to their adopted homes ; and
inspire them with firm resolution and holy power to live more
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brighter honor on this city, and fill us with joy that they were
born here. Bless thy servant, the President of the United
States ; those who administer the general government, and
the members of its legislature. Bless the Governor of this
State and all in authority. Send thy blessings on this city
and on our whole country. Prosper our literary and relig
ious institutions. Ever continue to us our government,
and preserve our nation in union and peace. Above all,
may we have that liberty, wherewith Christ has made us free.
May this home of our earthly pilgrimage serve to prepare us
all the more perfectly for an eternal home with our Saviour
and our God. Pardon our sins through our Saviour's blood ;
sanctify to our use these provisions of thy bounty, and us to
thy service, for our Redeemer's sake, to whom, with thee and
the Holy Spirit, be ascribed everlasting praise and glory.
Amen.

After the close of the repast, the President of ihe day called
upon Alfred W. Haven, Esq. as the gentleman selected in
behalf of the citizens of Portsmouth to address the visitors
from abroad, who proceeded as follows :

ADDRESS OF ALFRED W. HAVEN, ESQ.

Sons of Portsmouth, ivho here respond by your presence to

the invitation of our city. —

It is a pleasant duty assigned to me by our civil authori
ties, that of expressing the sentiments of our citizens in wel
coming their brothers on this happy occasion.

Not as stranger guests would we welcome you with cour
tesy merely ; not as a formal delegation from other cities
would we receive you with ostentatious hospitality, but with
out-stretched hands and open hearts do we hail your return
to your birth place, to the home of your youth. The feelings
which bring you here to-day lie a"t the very foundations of
our nature. It is said that the youth of Switzerland who
were wont to leave their country to serve under foreign stan
dards, were so deeply moved at hearing in a distant land the
music peculiar to their native mountains, that, touched by an
uncontrollable impulse, they would desert their ranks and re
turn to their well loved fatherland.

An instrument, whose sound reaches farther and stirs the
breast more thrillingly than any melody of music, that mights-

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est of instruments, the press, touched by the hand of one of
our distant brothers, and uttering but the thought "let us for
one day return to the place of our birth, and visit the friends
of our youth," found a natural response in your breasts, and
to-day makes our hearts glad with your presence.

You have gone forth from this ancient town of the old
Granite State, to swell the great industrial army of the na
tion ; in its ranks few of you remain as privates ; promotion,
which in that army always follows merit, has made you lead
ing men in the community.

It is reputed to have been said by one of our distinguished
statesmen who removed to a neighboring State, that "New
Hampshire is a good place to emigrate from," and the day
has been when we have been reproached for the expression.
It is true, and in the very sense in which he said it. He who
emigrates from New Hampshire carries the endorsement of
a good education and good principles, a character for indus
try and enterprise which has not yet been forfeited by her
sons. It is a good family to come from.

I speak with pride of our native State. How is a State
known but by its sons ? It matters not whether their field
of action be abroad or at home. She gave them birth, edu
cation, character; the breed belongs to her.

At the bar, at the press, in the national councils, wherever
native energy forces its way to distinction, you will find the
sons of New Hampshire. She was first of all the States to
step forward and adopt a State constitution, that first and
indispensable preliminary to the adoption of the Federal
Constitution under which we have become a great nation.-—
Virginia claims this proud distinction, but the record shows
that it belongs to New Hampshire.

On this national day we may well eulogize our Federal
Constitution. Without it, without the institutions which have
grown up under it and by reason of it, how little might we
have had of congratulation to-day ! Exclusive privileges,
passports, tolls and imposts might now have marked the in
tercourse between Stale and State, might have shackled our
enterprise and prevented that community of rights to which
you, who return to us from other States, are especially in
debted.

It would please me to say more on this and other topics
connected with the day, but I am under military orders as
to time, being commanded to come to a halt after an advance

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of five minutes ; and I believe that the next detachment will
find themselves under similar orders.

I will therefore but add, that whether you come from the
great metropolis of the Empire State, the heart of the republic,
whose pulsations are felt to its very borders, whose lakes are
oceans and whose cataracts speak in thunder as becomes ils
greatness — whether you come from that pattern city which
holds and well guards the cradle of liberty, which allows
none to excel her in institutions of philanthropy and of educa
tion, and which is excelled by none in the intelligence and
enterprise of its citizens — from whatever city, village or open
country you come, your brothers here at home extend to you
a cordial welcome — a welcome the more cordial as the meet
ing of this day shows that in all your wanderings (and in
what part of the globe have not some of you left your foot
prints?) you have ever carried with you the pleasant remem
brances of your birth place, and because we believe that after
this meeting the pole star will sooner be forgotten by the
mariner than the old homestead will be forgotten by you.

Francis E. Parker, Esq. President of the Boston delega
tion, in their behalf replied as follows :

REPLY OF FRANCIS E. PARKER, ESQ.

Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen : —

In behalf of the sons of Portsmouth resident in Boston, and
of all your guests to-day, I thank you. The hand that you
offer is taken, the greetings that you give are returned. Our
words can tell you nothing more. What the hearts of these
six hundred would answer, neither their words nor mine can
ever tell you ; but I should be ashamed if there were a drop
of blood in my body that failed to answer such a welcome as
yours. It has made us feel that we are at home again — a
home that we honor, a home that we bless — a home that we
have never forgotten, and which we now know has never
forgotten us.

We went out from you, sir, one by one, we come back an
army with banners. We went out with uncertain hearts, we
come back bringing our sheaves with us — but we went out
children, and as children we return. It may be hard for you,
sir, to find a trace in the men before you of the boys that left
you years ago; but pardon us for not remembering the
changes that you see plainly. We stand on our native soil

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again ; we breathe our nati\re air again ; old faces met us at
fhedoor; old voices are sounding in our ears; the child's
heart moves within the man's ; and with the affection that we
left you, we meet you to-day.

Tt is with honest pride, sir, that we stand here. We are.
proud of our old town, of your new city. We have been
where men talk of Virginia, of the Empire State, of Plymouth
and Massachusetts Bay. These are proud words; but the
name of the Granite State has a spell stronger for us than
that of the Old Colony or the Old Dominion. And why
should it not, sir? For the last thirty years what State has
paid to its country such precious tribute? If they tell you
that you have sent, away your sons, tell them that you have
scr.t them their rulers. And if they speak of your frost and
your rocks, what spot that the sun shines on, is fairer than
this Strawberry Bank, and the twenty miles square of which
it is the capital. Separated from the inland State by the
mountains, from Maine by that fierce river, with the ocean
on the east and the Merrimac on the south, this little district
lies like a green island; out of the tide of business and fash
ion, and with none to praise it but those, who know and love
it as we do; and to us, sir, though we have seen many other
lands, and the things of this world faded into the common
day, it still seems as fair as when we last saw it in the light
of our morning sun.

But has Boston no cause to remember Portsmouth, and
the other cities which were once its rivals, and which now
lie in its shadow? Why, sir, of the children bojn in Boston
in 1850, those whose parents were natives of Massachusetts
were not one-fourth ; and those whose parents were natives
of Boston, were less than an eighth. And when the Sons of
New Hampshire marched through her streets in 1849, it was
in thousands. And to-day, when Portsmouth calls home her
sons, with their wives and children, you have fourteen hun
dred whom Boston counts as its bone and blood. Has the
country no reason to remember a town which has had two
hundred and thirty years of good order, — which has never
known a murder, — which was foremost in our revolution, —
which built the first man-of-war in our navy, and which
manned the ship that fought the first naval battle of America,
— a town which gave its country Woodbury, Mason and
Webster ? And will a town have no claim on future grati-
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tude which sets the first example to-day, by its municipal
authorities, of a great home festival to its absent sons?

And well, sir, have you chosen by our meeting at this
board, to celebrate the union and birth day of these States.
It shows us the secret of that union. Close as is our com
panionship here, we are citizens of States which the law calls
foreign ; and to-morrow's sun will see a dispersion quicker
and wider than that on the plains of Shinah. On our next
national festival the hand that grasped mine to-day, will be
holding the plough in Iowa, or will be deep in the golden
sands of California. The paradox is true: we are united
because we are scattered, and our instinct of change is the
source of that fraternity which beats with one pulsation
through the great heart of the nation to-day. More than by
the timid cry of alarmists, or the vulgar calculation of politi
cians will that union be cemented by such meetings as this :
for here we cannot forget that, humble as is our native town,
there is scarce a State that the children of Portsmouth have
not made their homes, and that does not hold their graves.

You have told us, sir, that. Portsmouth is a good place to
go from ; you have shown us that it is a good place to come
back to. But as we come to your generous board, we re
member the vacant places of those who went out with us arid
who are gone beyond welcome or return ; nor can we forget,
sir, that of the hands that last pressed ours, and the hearts
that would have beat quickest at our return, many are under
that sod which we left with the waving grass upon it, and
return to find fallowed and consecrated ground. For such
memories, which it were as idle to banish from our lips as it
is impossible to banish them from our hearts, we thank the
town of our early friends. For the kindness which we enjoy
to-day, and which we shall remember to the last day of our
lives, townsmen, schoolmates, companions, friends, again we
thank yon.

The first regular toast was then announced.

1.— Tlif. President of the United States — A son of the Granite State and a former resident of
Portsmouth.

[Music —PresiiienCs March.']

Albert R. Hatch, Esq., being called upcn, responded to
this toast as follows :
Mr. Mayor,—

I wish that onr distinguished fellow citizen were here to
reply with 1m own eloquent lips to the greeting you give

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him to-day. A native of New-Hampshire, he has always
regarded her commercial capital with the warmest friendship.
Here he completed his education in the office of one of the
most distinguished jurists of the country; and with our peo
ple he has always maintained the most pleasant social rela
tions. After the recent election, which elevated him to the
station he adorns, he said to a friend, " I looked first at the
returns from my native town, then at those from Concord,
where I reside, then at those from Portsmouth, and the favor
shown me in these three places gave me more pleasure than
the whole result of the election."

Were he here to-day this concourse would give him pleas
ure, not iess accordant with his high position than with his
private feelings. To the quiet little town of Portsmouth,
where the bustle of commerce and the advent of new faces
are rarely sufficient to disturb the quiet avocations of its citi
zens ; to a place insignificant among the great and growing
cities of the Union, have come back men, active and influen
tial in the greatest and most thriving places of the land. The
social, commercial and literary capital of New England ; the
metropolis of the western world, of unrivalled growth and
wonderful activity, energy and wealth ; the sober city of Wil
liam Petin, long the equal of the great commercial capital,
and still second to no other; the queenly city of the Ohio, —
with many other places, less in size, but not less in all the
Hernents of enterprise, intelligence and increasing wealth, are
here represented. And with the memory of the absent sons
of Portsmouth, whom we can greet to day but in imagina
tion, come up visions of the far west, of the sunny south and
of the golden shores of the Pacific. In the islands of tha!
western ocean, in the marts of China, on the sacred banks of
the Ganges, in the cities of Europe, and upon every oc-ea«
where the enterprise of the Anglo Saxon race has penetrated,
are to be found active and prosperous men, who will this day
remember their childhood passed on the banks of the Pis-
eataqua and among the rough hills of New Hampshire. —
Yet the mother of all those men who have aided to aggran
dize other cities, and have wrestled successfully with fortune
in other lands, sits, as ever beside her own beautiful river,
untouched by decay, if she has not felt the increase of rapid
prosperity.

Permit me, sir, to congratulate the city of my adoption,
because she is the mother of such offspring. The Romans

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called Africa, Arida nutrix leonum, the dry nurse of Korrs.—
Portsmouth may claim to be the fruitful mother of men : of
men, who filially acknowledging their origin, h'ave firmly es
tablished themselves in every part of this broad Union. These
and such as these, constitute a bond which more strongly
I ban any other, shall bind together our States in the unity of
common interest, a common brotherhood and a common
government. With such a governmen-t, to use the eloquent
wofds of the inaugural address, we may " realize that upon
every sea and on every soil, where our enterprise may right
fully seek the protection of our flag, American citizenship is
the inviolable panoply for the security of American rights."

2. — The Day tee Celebrate— Its annual return has ever foSWd ihe nation to which it gave birth,
increasing: in power, improving in ihe art? and sciences \»hich constitute a great and enlight'
ened people, and cherishing more dearly tlie blessings of a1 free government.

[Music — Hull Culumbia.~\

No response being made, the1 next regular toast was arF
nounced :

3.— The Army and Navy of the. United States — Their laurels hare been nobly won.

[Music — HuW» Victory.~\

Major W. Austine, in command of Fort Constitution,
responded briefly as follows : —

Mr. President, —

For the compliment paid to the two services, to one of
which I have the honor to belong, on their behalf I tender
very s-iwcefe thanks. In time of peace we are but a nucleus ;,
hat around which in times of peril, our fellow citizens rally
in countless numbers, thus constituting a» army and a navy
capable of sustaining the honor of our flag under all and any
circumstances. History and the personal observation of
many of our number, show that among the foremost thus to
rally, we always find many of the gallant sons of the Granite
State. [Applause.] What a happy gathering is this, on the
glorious anniversary of our national Independence. You
have come from far and near to revive old associations, and to
offer anew your devotions to the homes of your fathers. —
Forever honored be such holy feelings, and may this day be
ever fresh in your memories. And while you thus so happily
welcome the Sons of Portsmouth, I know you will not for
get the fairer and better part of creation. I therefore give
you —

The Daughters of Portsmouth, native am3aiJapt«d—'H&)- health ami huppiiies» attend them,
wtieiiie* at liome or abroad.

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ft. — Our visitors, the Sons of Portsmouth.

[Music — Auld Lang Syne."]

James T. Fields was loudly called for in answer, and after
receiving the cheers of his brethren of Boston, was saluted
with "three cheers to the schools of Portsmouth, and the
teacher of James T. Fields," from the New York delegation.
With some emotion he proceeded to say :

What shall I say to you ? How can I find words to thank
you for this kind, kind welcome ? I was afraid, when I saw
this morning the gathering crowds nestling about our com
mon mother, this dear and beautiful old town, I was afraid
she would be placed in the game awkward situation with that
elderly darne spoken of in the story book, who dwelt in the
tenament of leather, and had so many children she did not
know what to do. But my fears were groundless, for we
discovered at once that the shoe did not pinch anywhere. —
We found a welcome so warm and earnest that we felt as
sured there was room enough and cheer enough for all ; that
this is indeed the wanderer's ample harbor and the pilgrim's
welcome home.

It is reported of an expedition to the Holy Land, that when
the army came within sight of Jerusalem, beholding the
glories of that ancient city, filled with the memories of its
buried past, they were so transported with joy that the earth
rang with their shouts of rapture. Something akin to that
feeling, then and there expressed, seems to animate and burn
within us to-day. Self possession and calm collected thought
are entirely out of the question. Belted round with troops
of friends, every face beaming a welcome, every eye kindled
with affectionate interest, every voice taking the tone of recog
nition, no wonder that a man loses almost his power of ut
terance in that choking sensation which somehow quite
overmasters him and will not be subdued. Thus vanquished,
thus deprived of the power adequately to acknowledge what
we all feel, here and now, the unbidden tear, which speaks
the universal language of the human heart, seems to me the
the most natural and fitting expression of what is throbbing
at the great seat of life. If we had come among you un
known and unknowing, strangers from a far-off country,
claiming your hospitality simply on the ground of humanity,
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thanks. But you take us by storm, you flock around us like
a band of brothers, and make us feel like children of the same
kind mother who has called us back under the old maternal
roof, to sit once more around the family table, and listen again
to those words of love and counsel that fell so like music
upon the listening ear of childhood. But if 1 may trespass
longer on your kindness, I must try to tell you my thoughts
about the matter in a few simple, hasty, but honest rhymes.
Mr. Fields then read the following poem:

HARK ! 't is the ringing bugle's swell,

The crashing cannon's flame,
The echoing shout, the pealing bell,

Our festal mom proclaim !
Whose blood can creep thro' sluggish veins 1

What pulse will lag to day ?
I<pok where among the hiils and plains

Our native banners play !

Standstill, thou ever restless tide,

Thou stream with memories rite,
And let us muse once more beside

The fountain-springs o( life.
Ye days o[ boyhood's goldeu prime,

Ye hours that flew so fast,
Oh, stay—come baelc,thon vanished Time :

Return, thou buried Past !
Thou stern and silent mouldering Past,

Unveil thy marble tomb,
And lei the lifted blazing torch

Thy pallid form illume !
In vain ; 't is dumb and will not speak

Till memory's magic wand
Calls back the life blood to the cheek,

And bids those lips respond.

I see the dark-hung drapery rise,

The dusty folds unclose,
And view, beyond, our childhood's skies

In calm and sweet repose.
One moment, and the curtains fall,

The present hides the scene,
While other voices round us call,

And fades whal once has been.

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Go, seek the rosy western light,

That yester eve was there ;
Bring back to manhood's longing sight

Forms that were once so fair !

Alas! those shining hues are fled,

Gone like that closing day ;
And we must seek among the dead

Beneath yon churchyard clay !
This wandering breeze that fans the stones

Where oft we've gone to weep,
Will almost baar these idle tones

To where our loved ones sleep.
But here, unseen, we know they inaet,

Who left this spot in t,cars ;
Yes, viewless saints ! your forms we gree'.

Who nursed our infant years !

Ah, changing wfKld ! ah, fleeting joys !

Hopes that like suns arose
On us, a troop of happy boys,

Have melted like the snows 1
The very games that once were fun.

Are grim and tedious now ;
'T is toil that rules each weary son.,

'T is care that stamps the brow.
We use to "run the gauntlet" then^

And think the sport divine ;
Ah me ! the gauntlets now we run.

Are very far from fine !
To grub and dig— -for ampler time

How hard we used to beg ;
But now, we groan and shudder when

We kneel to "gnaw the peg !:)

Too long our weary feet have trod

The thorny paths of care,
But now above- our native sod

We feel life's purer air !
Too long the wanderer turned 'his eyes

In quest of worldly gain ;
To-day he seeks fcxr brighter skies,

And walks his native plain :

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Oil, take us bask with all our years, God hlesa the spot we love so well—

Ye treasured haunts of youth ! The earth has none more ftiir ;

Forgive a few fond, foolish tears, 'T is honest pride,— our bosoms swell

The heart's warm stamp of Truth ! To beathe their native air !

We come in manhood's riper hours Come, lads, a cheer to speak our joy,

To lay our garlands down, While here our flag unfurls —

And braid a wreath of fresher flowers A Health for Portsmouth Man and Boy,

For thee our native town ! And don't forget the Girls.

The next regular toast followed :

5.— Tfa City of Boston— Adorned in hur literature, science, art and commerce, by many
who have gone from us.

[Music — Boston Grand March.']

Rev. Thomas Starr King was called upon, and responded:

Mr. Mayor, —

1 should regret very much that some one older and more
competent than myself has not been called upon to respond
to the sentiment just read, were it not that justice has already
been done to the large debt of Boston to Portsmouth, by the
gentleman who so warmly welcomed us here, at your invi
tation, and also by our eloquent frier d, the president of the
Boston delegation. I should find it difficult, for another rea
son, to keep strictly within the limits which your toast defines.
None of us care to know anything about Boston to-day, or to
hear of it. It lias floated far away from us. It is more dis
tant than the fifty-lour miles of rail-road, that divide us from it
and connect us with it, indicate. As we have walked the
old streets and seen the well remembered haunts, and homes,
and playgrounds, to-day, we have felt that years of experience
lie between us and the metropolis of New England; for here
we are all boy» again. You know, sir, how the Chinese
make their maps. They put their own country in the centre,
and in full light, so that it occupies most of the chart, and
arrange Great Britain, France, Russia and America around
it as little island dots, insignificant in the shadow. Well, sir,
according to the geography or our hearts to-day, Portsmouth
is the radiant centre, although she fills but a small space on
ihe real chart, and Boston, Lowell, Philadelphia and New
York, whatever places we may have left to revisit our old
home, must stand for the lime secondary and distant in our
love.

But, sir, 1 do not forget that some explanation may be
needed why I stand here at all to speak among the sons of
Portsmouth. Most of you need not be told that I am not
strictly a native : I am sorry for it. . Among the heirs by blood

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I come as an adopted child. Generally the process of adop
tion into a family is conducted by the parents and depends
on their will ; but I have adopted Portsmouth, and shall cling
to her as a mother till the good old town openly and by vote
rejects me from her children. That is not necessarily one's
native place where the eyes were first quickened by the light.
If so my allegiance is wholly due to the city of New York.
The spot where we first beheld the sun is the accidental
birth place of the body. But the true man lies within the
frame, and that is really one's native place which the soul
accepts as such, and which the heart fastens upon as the
childhood's home. That is one's native place beyond which
the eye of memory cannot reach, in whose real and social
landscape the first conscious years were enfolded, where
the youngest friendships were formed, and the earliest asso
ciations which constitute part of the warp of character, were
laid in the loom of experience.

It makes no difference, sir, where we were babies, for then
wherever our residence may be, our only home is our moth
er's arms; the great question is, where were we boys ? In
common with the rest of you I was a boy and began to be a
boy in Portsmouth. The town is sacred to me as the place
where I first learned the mysteries of "tag" and "corum" and
"mumble peg"; where the imagination was first exercised in
"playing horse," — and those that were concerned with me in
the exercises have often told me that they were obliged to
personate the animal, and that I must always hold the reins.
Here it was that I longed for the Fourth of July and the fire
crackers ; for winter and its snowballing and the skating on
"half-moon pond" ; and nowhere else but here did it happen
to me to become acquainted with the difference between the
plebian "marble" and the aristocratic "alley," In looking back
over the landscape of memory, no spot is more interesting than
"Marden's pasture," where a company of urchins often repair
ed on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons, with white shirts
over our jackets and armed with wooden swords and the
heads of flour barrels for shields, to imitate the battles of the
Iliad. Doubtless there are several now listening here, who
have clear recollections of fighting in the character of Diome-
des, or Ajax, against me as Ulysses, or Agamemnon ; for at
first we generally respected the historic proprieties, but as the
battle thickened, Greek met Greek and each took to fighting
on his own hook.

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O, that glorious Portsmouth of our boyhood ! To-day as
we have traversed the streets and been gladdened by your
cordial and beautiful welcome, how have the old scenes and
joys and sacred places, risen fresh in my mind ! I know that
crowds of you will delight in the mention of Dunyon's candy
store. What the nectar of the gods may be I cannot guess,
but sir I do not believe it can taste so good as those sticks of
cinnamon and clove candy, with large heads, tasted to our
childish palates, when we carried our pennies to that sanctum
of sweets. I can distinctly remember how the glory of man
hood once seemed to me to lie in having plenty of pocket
money to expend, without fear of anybody, in Dunyon's
store. And next, Mrs. Massey's shop ! With what wonder
and surprise we used to enter it ! Why, sir, if Aladdin's lamp
were put in my hand, and I could raise by its magic a man
sion splendid as those we read of in the Arabian Nights, it
would not seem such a palace of enchantment as always
opened upon my eyes when a» a child I entered that dazzling
collection of whistles and trumpets, tin swords, dolls, rocking
horses and toys. As our procession passed over the South
Mill bridge to-day, how quickly my thoughts returned to the
early fishing experiences which make that spot so dear in
memory. It has happened to me once off Cape Ann, to pull
up a cod that would almost match my own weight. It seem
ed for sometime a question which was caught, the fish or the
fisher, as I tugged at the line with bleeding fingers ; but, sir,
I believe that if I should catch the sea serpent, I should not
feel so proud of it, as I used to when a good large "cobbletir"
came out of the water, wriggling on the little pin hook, as we
boys fished off the mill bridge ; and no fish can ever again
seem so large and mysterious as the pollock that would scull
around our lines and smell our bait, and perversely refuse to
bite in the deep clear water near the Spring Market. That
old South End is sacred, too. by our first associations of awe
in presence of the supernatural. I do not know what spirits
may be raised and brought into communication with us by
the modern rappings ; but certainly none can be conjured that
will thrill a South End boy with such shivering fear as the
little witches that, on very dark nights, used to appear to us
at the windows of the old south school house, and run some
times along the gun house wall.

But my boyish recollections of Portsmouth include more
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pressions were made upon me of the sanctity of age, and the
mystery of life, and the glory of religious character, and the
serious call to Christian consecration. We passed the build
ing to-day, moreover, which stands first in my gratitude and
love, where I learned the best lesson which can be taught to
any child — how to study — and where the whole foundation of
the little instruction I have gained in life was thoroughly laid.
The faithful teacher, to whom hundreds of the Sons of Ports
mouth are so deeply indebted, is with us here, and I rejoice
that I am permitted to-day, to bear witness to his fidelity and
the unspeakable value of his labors for me, and to offer him
my gratitude for his great service to me as a boy. There are
scores of us here who were pupils of Mr. Harris. Let me
recall to them how often he has told us that we should one
day thank him for his thoroughness in drilling us, for his
sternness of discipline, and even for the occasional whippings
which we now see were less frequent than we deserved.
Fellow-citizens, let us prove that our old teacher, — whose
heart is faithful 1o all his pupils, past and present, while his
form is endeared to us by the baHlowing touches of age, —
let us prove that he was indeed a true prophet, by publicly
thanking him here for all he has done for us, in three hearty
cheers.

[Mr. Harris rose at the request of Mr. King and the whole
company united in most enthusiastic cheers.]

I have trespassed, sir, unwarrantably upon your time, but
I wish if you will bear with me to say before closing, that
there is something in this scene and the feelings that have
inspired us to return here, intimately connected with the
sentiment which this day should deepen, — the sentiment of
patriotism. Our land is richer in almost everything than in
deep and tender local attachments. Artd yet those are es
sential to the strength and fineness of any form of civilization.
A grove of oaks impresses the eye by the majesty and power
which their sinewy boughs and swaying branches reveal, but
the little tap roots are the indispensable sources of all that life.
We cannot love our country very deeply as a mass and a
whole. No man can consciously take Arkansas and Utah,
all the squatters and the Mormons, with their omnibus loads
of wives, into his bosom. The poetic adjuration of patriot
ism is "pro aris et /om", for your altars and hearths. The
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tricts. It must take its roots in the towns and villages that
sheltered our infancy and nurtured our boyhood. There has
always been a strong party in our. land that would wean
patriotic affection from the nation to concentrate it upon the
individual states. "State Rights" is their motto. We should
all go for town rights, — their claims upon our veneration,,
service and love. By such movements as this- in which we
have joined, we deepen the healthy sensibilities which
strengthen the land, and help to make patriotism an intelli
gent, practical and ennobling passion-. We do something to.
break the power of selfishness in the community, and to-
make our country a place to love instead of a mere mart for
gain. The great rivers of the country, we know, sir, are-
formed from streams that were born of brooks, which in their
turn are the products of rills of water that collect the drop&
given to the mountain sides and summits in the showers and?
storms. But when those drops flow together by myriads in
the broad sweeping tide of the river that rolls toward the sea,
they cannot refer by any subtle attraction known in the
world of matter, to the hill-tops where they were formed, and
the little channels by the way side where they first murmured
in the traveller's ear. But the great tide of conscious life
in the republic is contributed from the numberless villages
and towns, and there the human drops may have a double life ;
they may pour the energy of their hands into the mighty strsam
of business and political power, and yet keep affection Ton the
earliest home, and even return to the familiar haunts- with
offerings of filial regard. And so, sir, we come to-day, hur
rying back from, the stream of Boston life that claims us, to
the bed of the brook where our earliest life was sheltered.
We come with whatever talents we have and are recognized
among men- — all with one heart and zeal; our poet publisher,,
who gives us only too few of his own books with the trea>-
sures from abroad which his- taste selects for our libraries and!
our leisure hours; our admirable wit, the patient amanuensis-
of the quaint and oracular Mrs. Partington ; the honored pre
siding officer of our delegation of whom k is the largest eulo
gy to say that he is the worthy son of ai sainted sire ;: these,
and all the scores around you, distinguished in the various-
paths of social responsibility and honest industry, — we come
to twine a garland of our reputations and weave it in with
the greater fame of Woodbury, the learning of Peabody, the
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daring yet modest science of Coues, and the fragrant and
hallowed memories of such as Cheever and Foster, — as a
crown for the head of our dear old mother as she sits serenely
by the sea. In conclusion, sir, I beg to offer as a sentiment :

The principle an-1 germ of pure anl noble Patriotism — A filial love for our mother towns.

G.— Thecity of Niw York.— The great metropolis of our country in which we all have a com
mon interest ; we gain in the common honor what we individually lose by contributing our
quota of the high principled and intelligent men to add to her greatness.

[Music— Manhattan Quick Step.]

Hon. William A. Walker, member of Congress from
New York, and chairman of the New York delegation, in
reference to this toast, expressed the thanks of the members
of the delegation to the authorities of Portsmouth for the in
vitation and reception, and in a few affecting remarks alluded
to the ancient ties which connected them with the place of
their birth. Friends, he said, meet to-day for the first time in
many years. It is an occasion of gladness mingled with sorrow.
We grasp the warm hands of early friends, we gaze upon
familiar but changed countenances ; but the cypress is min
gled with the laurel, and we look in vain for the many famil
iar and venerable forms and faces, whom in youth we de
lighted to honor. He then referred to the growth and prog
ress of the city of New York, to the development of her ma
terial and moral greatness, characterizing her as the great
representative city of the nation, belonging equally to all sec
tions and races of its extended territory. The most marked
feature of her character, he remarked, was her immense na
tionality and her devotion to the union of the States under
our national constitution. A portion of this spirit she wish
ed to leave behind in her interchange of communication with
every section of the common country. Mr. Walker then re
ferred to the evident progress of the city of Portsmouth, con
gratulating her upon her commercial capability and pros
pective prosperity, and concluded with a neat and appropri
ate poetical quotation.

7. — Woman.— The virtues of the son are but the reflection of the uoble qualities of the
mother.

[Music— Home, Siceet Home,']

Mr. Samuel H. Gookin, of Boston, was loudly called upon
to respond to this toast, and was received with nine enthu
siastic cheers.

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Mr. O. remarked on rising that these tremendous cheers
appeared to him as premature, and he felt convinced that
they would regret offering them after listening to his speech.
He felt constrained to apologize for the members of the Bos
ton delegation, and take back the compliment which he had
paid them on another occasion, for their presumption in put
ting him in the breach, and compelling him to respond to
this sentiment. After quoting the well known lines —

•' Oh woman ! in our hours of ease," &c.

he spoke of the gratification which was felt by all the guests
of the day, for the hospitalities which had been heaped upon
them, expressing many thanks to the government and citizens
but more to the ladies of Portsmouth,

" The dear sweeteners of life's bitter cup,"

who had worked so zealously for the pleasure and comfort
of their visitors. Mr. Gookin also went back to the days of
boyhood to utter his remembrances of school and school-boy
sports and of the 4th of July times, when he sat up all night
beforehand to give proper notice of the coming day, and all
night afterwards to see that it departed wilh proper honors, —
Alter complimenting Messrs. Shillaber and Harris of Boston,
as the leaders of the movement towards the present happy
union, Mr. Gookin gave —

Tlie Mothers of the Sorts of Portsmouth,— Their virtues are as firm as their native hills; may
their sons emulate their principles, and Uo what in them lies to add to the fair fame of our
dear old native town.

Mr. B. P. Shillaber, of Boston, was then called for. After
some hesitancy, having never before spoken in public, he ap
peared on the rostrum amid the shouts of the company. As
soon as he could make himself heard he said :

J\lr. Mayor,—

I hardly know what to say in reply to the enthusiastic call
wilh which I have been greeted. But I feel " exercised" to
say something ; what I can hardly tell. Perhaps, as Burns
says,

" it may turn out a sany,

Perhaps turn out a sermon."

Most probably it will ber the former, and for want of better
matter, I will read you a few rhymes that carne to me, which
may express the feelings of

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THE PORTSMOUTH BOYS AT HOME.

A phalanx strong and tree we come
To meet amid the scenes of home —
Again to mingle heart and heart,
As in life's early morning-start,
When, with stout nerve and earnest soul,
We parted for the distant goal.
And we have wandered wide and far,
Led onward by Hope's guiding star ;
Through ways diversely wide we've passed,
"With varied fortunes on us cast ;
felt much of good and much of ill
From Fate's o'erbending skies distil ;
But, though afar, we've ne'er forgot
Each olden well-beloved spot.
And every hill and rock and stream
Has been recalled in many a dream,
And life's pursuits, of high or low,
Have paled no beam of filial glow,
That with renewing ray has burned
As oft the heart has homeward turned.

Or mightier gales than those which bore

Our shallow ships from shore to shore !

Beyond its clear and glassy tide

Rock Pasture rests in pristine pride.

In memory only is it seen —

In memory may it still be green,

As when, in days of ancient peace,

Old Mr. Mifflin reared his geese,

And S/frburne's Wharf, a spot revered,

In willowy garniture appeared,

And Cellar old and Great Rock gray

Saw rudimental men at play,—

For innovation's iron hand

Has marred the features of the land,

And the Rock Pasture now we are shown

Is not the one we erst have known !

Though other streams mrtre wide may be

Of import more and majesty,

Yet none from one can e'er bespeak

A warmer love than Walkers Cree.k.

Fancy unchecked has roamed at will ;
W«'ve stood again on Breakfast Hill,
And felt the breezes round us Mow,
As on May mornings long ago,
When, left our bsds for phantom flowers
In early dawn's ungenial hours,
In ashing hands and glowing noses
Has merged our hope of vernal roses!
Once more we've roamed from Sevenpine Rock
In dreamy shoes, to Puddle Dock,
And bathed again beneath the waves
That ceaseless lave the Point of Graven,
Where, in eternal slumbers deep,
The " fathers of the hamlet sleep."

We've walked once more in memory o'er
That sacred precinct Christian Shore,
And heard the hum of Walker's Mill,
And Blood enrapt on Dennett's Hill,
Where the big fish perpetual glides
On steady fin through airy tides,
And saw that pond beneath us rest,
Upon whose placid stormless breast,
(In days full well remembered yet,)
Our litlle sails in pride we set,
Nor deemed that in the world's wide round
A fnirer sea co jld e'er be found,

And thou, remembered Sagamore!
Some fairy pencil traced thy shore,
With most artistic beauties rife,
Ere sturdy Nature gave it life ;
The woods that skirt thy verdant side
Bow over thee in love and pride,
And lay their shadows there to rest
Upon the pillow of thy breast ;
No sonnets of harsh discordance press
To mar thy blessed peacefulness ;
Tli3 old pines murmur whispcringly
As if in earnest praise of thee ;
And troops of brilliant loving birds
Sing their delight in joyous words,
Responsive to thine own sweet speech
That breaks in music on thy beach.
Among thy haunts again we've played,
Again along thy shore we've strayed,
And bowed like pilgrims at a shrine
Before thy beauties so divine !
Again our foreheads warm and glowing
Have I'll thy crystal coolness flowing
And love has strengthened in the bears
Reflected from thy shore and stream.

And oft-remembered Frenchman's Lane
Comes up before the mind again,

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With brooding shadows dark and dread,

From elms enlacing overhead ;

And on a broad flat stone we read

The trace of that perfidious deed,

Where on this spot, long long ago,

The Frenchman met his mortal woe.

Dread spot ! where boys scarce dared to roam

Beyond the evening's early gloom,

For fear lest they might haply meet

The Frenchman in his winding sheet.

O!i, glorious myth ! that urchins scares,

And saves to Ham his sugar pears !

And sense and soul must all be dead
When we forget the Fountain Head,
That shrine to which our footsteps strayed,
For rest and solace in its shade,
When parched beneath the summer heat
We've coveted its treasures sweet,
And dipped our pails within the pool
Wli3re bubbled up the waters cool,
In ceaseless never-tiring flow,
And icy stillness from below,
The while the fife-bird poured his song
Upon the slumbering air along,
Till, taking captive boyhood's ear,
It bowed in still delight to hear !
Full many a name on that old shrine
Was written in the clays lang syne —
Few scarcely dreaming deeper fame
Than that which registered their name!

And memories, like railway trains,
Come freighted, full, of Portsmouth Plains —
That greater field, in boyhood's view,
Than. New Orleans or Waterloo!
With mighty deeds of arms 'tis rife,
An 1 rattling drum and squeaking fife,
And Bj.vy's buns, and weary legs,
And apple juice, and hard boiled eggs !
Again hear how the music rings,
Where Myers thumbs the catgut strings,
Where, answering to the sounding fiddle,
;Tis "down outside and up the middle,"
AnJ waves of flaming calico
In mighty surges corn§ and go !
Again we see the grand display
Of many a famed '-'great training day,"
When soldiers brave in fixings fair,
(And some by far t'ua worse for wear,)

Meet there in warlike trim to wail
And show themselves and serve the state—
The glory and the crowning pride
Of boys and men who stand outside !

Spring Market .'—how affection clings
To thee. best of remembered things '.
Delightful 'twas in days of old,
Thy mighty commerce to behold, —
Where, spread around thy circuit wide,
Was seen the fertile country's pride,
That Naiads ere tlie morning's glenm
Had ferried down the rapid stream.
And vivid thoughts arise of her,
The awful ancient Marriner,
Before whose stern and chilling frown
All predatory schemes went down ;
With whom the fruit-invested pence
Was sole atonement for offence.
There, trickling out from :neath the hill
Runs merrily that ceaseless rill,
That never from its fulness shrank
Though myriads from its bounty drank,
And wastes itself in icy flow
Upon the "flagrant" beach below. •
How often has that iron bowl
Been blissful to his thirsty soul,
Who, bending double for the prize,
Has crushed his beaver o'er his eyes.
But compensated for his pain
By tasting of its sweets again.
Grey, honored, worn Venetian pile
Which modern Goths have dared despoil!
Though statelier fabrics rear their forms
Upon thy site, my spirit warms
As it thy glories doth restore,
The pride of swift Piscataqua's shore.
Piscataqua ! that mighty tide,
With all our youthful thoughts allied,
Vet rolls its eddying waves along,
Untiring, ceaseless, free and strong,
As when with pole and hook and string
We fished for pollock by the " Spring."

And redolent with sulphury smell,
And resonant with gun and bell,
And luminous with fiery light —
The crown of Independence night —
The town Parade, with earnest strife,
Has lost no note of busy life :

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The Cmrt-House — venerable pile-
In gsntle dotage seems to smile ;
The old Town Pump, with outstretched hand
Like rigid sentinel doth stand ;
Jefferson Hall sends back again
That olden patriotic strain,
That rose when high and low degree
Brought votive gifts lo Liberty,
And, rallying, with earnest zeal,
Each twelvemonth saved the commonweal ;
And old Paved Street, with riches dight,
Comes back upon the dreaming sight,
With every gorgeous hue displayed,
As when, upon the sea of trade,
To welcome all auspicious gales,
The hopeful merchant set his sales.
There, like the guardian of the scene,
The North Church stands with solemn mien,
And reverent feelings cluster round
To sanctify the precious ground.
Its spire arises white and high,
Attracting upward still the eye,
A petrified perpetual saint —
A sermon preached in wood and paint !
That bell — tfie music of whose tone
What Portsmouth ear can e'er disown ? —
Yet swings within its ancient tower,
And calls to praise, and calls the hour,
As erst in garrulous pride it swung,
With open mouth and prating tongue,
Like many a mortal we have known
Whose virtue is in sound alone.

An endless task it is to trace
Each olden, well-remembered place,

Or give our heart emotions tone —
The heart must treasure them alone.
There are they eTermore portrayed,
The pictures that In youth were made :
The church, the school, the wood, the stream,
All, all return in memory's dream,
And friends and old delights we knew
Still live in retrospection's view.

And olden feeling is restored —
The pleasure beaming round the board
Reveals, in colors strong and clear,
The SPIRIT OF THE PAST is here !
No figment of the brain alone,
But flesh and blood and nerve and bone.
The hands we clasp are real things ;
That smile no ghostly radiance flings ;
Those eyes are lit by friendship's beam,
That fades not out n? fades a dream ;
These hearts with living pulses beat ;
These tongues with living tones are sweet ;
Those waves of blue that yonder flow
Have naught etherial in their glow ;
The bright forms glancing by our side
Are objects of terrestrial pride,
Although, adoringly, we're given
To deem them less of earth than heaven.

Then give to love the sovereign power ;
Let its blest influence rule the hour ;
And, waked anew, may it impart
A warmer sunshine to the heart,
That shall, as once again we roam,
Relume the path that leads to HOME !

8. — The Heroesafthe Revolution, Jfatives nfJVew Hampshire. — The names of Stark, Sullivan,
Scammell and their compatriots will never fade from our memories ; nor shall we forget
how nobly our heroes in the late war with Great Britain, and in the war with Mexico,
maintained the rights and the glory which their fathers won.

[Music— Rest, Warrior, Rest.]

Alfred Oilman, Esq., late Postmaster of Lowell, being
called upon, responded to this toast as follows :

Gentlemen, —

I thank you for this call, and am happy to be the medium
through which the adopted sons of Lowell respond. We
cherish those feelings of affection and attachment due to the
home of our childhood, and feel that this occasion has re-

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newed and invigorated the emotions of youth. We live it
over again in viewing your spires and school houses, old and
hallowed places, in recalling familiar faces, and renewing our
acquaintance with former friends. You must not think that
because absent we forget the home of our childhood. We
have continually a desire to hear and know of her welfare,
and carefully watch every movement that affects her interest
or honor. Again we feel that on our part we have obliga
tions to fulfil — so to govern ourselves that our actions may
reflect credit on the place of our birth, and keep honor bright.
I trust you will not •charge me with egotism if I mention that
out of the fifteen or eighteen natives of Portsmouth resident
in Lowell, one-third at least have occupied places of impor
tant trust and honor, mostly in the gift of the people of Low
ell. I can point to a county commissioner, a representative
to the Legislature of Massachusetts, a President of her Com
mon Council, a member of her board of school committee,
and to other officers of no less importance. But, Mr. Presi
dent, to cut my remarks short, I see around me many young
men from abroad, who, we may suppose, are aspiring to
another state than that of single blessedness, and I will pro-

post

Oitr Bachelor Friends from Abroad— They will find the old Strawberry Bank a safe place for
<an investment of affection. When she makes a dividend, they will Jiave as their share,
"Heaven's last best gift to man."

The next regular toast followed —

9. — "flit iticmory of John LingHon, and the Patriots of the Revolutionary War — Who made the
Jirst seizure of the enemy's military stores: namely, at Fort William and Mary at the
TOOuth of the Piscataqua.

[Music — Liberty for me.']

Mr. C. L. Woodbury, son of the late Judge Woodbury,
replied as follows :

Gentlemen — The toast to which you have just drank affords
a theme that no son of the Old Granite State can contem
plate without emotion. The affection that all true-hearted
races feel for their native land, adorns the history of the world,
and gives inspiration to the poets and orators. The Jews
mourned by the waters of Babylon ; and the bold Swiss
grows heart-sick at the sound of the ranch des vao/ws. The
poor exile whom oppression has driven from his native land
to our hospitable shores, dreams fondly of home, but he asso
ciates in that dream the hope that the proud neck of the op
pressor shall be bowed, and the people go free. How doubly
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pride in our native land, has no association to chili the heart
and make the lofty thought grow sick. Free, bold, beautiful
and proud New-Hampshire, the characteristics of her peopfe-
like her land — steadfast as her lofty mountains of enduring
granite, independant and venturous as the free, endless and
eternal ocean, whose waves lash her rock-bound shores. —
The history of our State is an escutcheon without a blot — a
sovereign' among sovereigns. No act of hers, from the hour
when the first keel grated on the shingle at Strawberry banks,
to the present, to which her sons cannot refer with pride ;
and the characteristics of her sons may well vie with the nob
lest races that have adorned the world. At the era of her
first setilementVthe commercial supremacy of the world was
divided by the French, the Spaniards, and the Dutch. Eng
land felt the stimulus of acquisition and conquest ; and she
sent here yea* ancestors — they came not as fugitives from
one religious tyranny to found' another as bigoted and intol
erant as'that from which they fled — they came for the pur
pose of civilization and progress, to open that rich1 lumber
trade, to hunt the forests, trade with the natives, and1 gather
from the ocean her peerless* wealth of fisheries lavished along
the coast. The great fisheries to the eastward were then al
most monopolized1 by the French, To your ancestors were
intrusted the objects of creating that rivalry which should give
to England a nursery for seamen, and those supplies- of naval
stores needed to contend with the bold Frenchman for com
mercial power and Indian* trade. And to Portsmouth be
longs the glory of being the cradle of the Granite State — of
first developing the lumber trade of America — of first devel
oping the ship building of this continent, now" surpassing
that of all the rest of the world. The first man-of-war ever
built upon the continent was constructed here ;• so was the
first man-ot-war built during the Revolution^ to contest with
England, the dominion- of the seas. You* supplied the
masts and spars for the royal navy ; and the Indian, as he
roamed at the base of the White mountains, shrunk back as
from the hand writing on the wall, when he saw the noble
pines marked by the broad arrow of the Portsmouth survey
or. England did not send you here for agriculture. The
broad axe, the marling spike, the cod line, the whale spade,
and the sawmill were the instruments with which your an
cestors were to carve out the germ of the future naval and
commercial glory of this continent ; and she chose her set.-

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tiers from among that hardy Danish race who had twice
conquered England, and to whom the ship and bold adven
ture were as instincts of nature. That inevitable destiny
which shapes the course of mankind to its own decrees, the
great cause of civilization and progress, demanded that here,
upon this continent should arise a free home for the oppress
ed of all mankind — where in liberty, peace and industry,
man might grow in grace to the dignity due to those created
after in God's image, that a seed should be planted from
whence young America could grow to be the hope and refuge
of a down-trodden world, and Providence devoted this old
town of Portsmouth to be the cradle of great deeds, of prog
ress and bold adventure.

A century and a quarter had passed awayr and no man
had yet caught the prophetic inspiration by which to read the
destinies of America. Here, indeed, was room for all — no
ancient prejudices or tyrant customs, a free and practical
world could have been erected to realize the Christian idea
of peace, industry and prosperity. Unfortunately three pow
ers divided the Continent — whose European jealousies di-
fused their venom here, and whose rivalries forbid peace —
we could not have peace because we could not have union.
The ambitious or the restless demagogue in each country
sought quarrels as the means of advancement. And peace
could only be when this continent was united in one vast
and happy union of independent sovereignties. France
struggled to monopolize the fisheries, England did the same
— neither was content to leave them free and open to all the
world; more than this, each nation beheld in the possession
of them a key to the naval supremacy of the world. So great
a prize was too tempting to pass by unregarded. The jealous
rivalry of France and England was to be fought out here
upon this continent, with the nations of the world for spec
tator?. New-Hampshire was the advance guard of England,
and led the way to those great acts that were to shape the
destiny of the continent. The genius of Vaughan, a Ports-
month boy, whose bones now sleep in the garden of one of
the Vice Presidents of this meeting, planned an expedition
to cut off the Gibraltar of France — the stronghold whence
she controlled the fisheries and protected Canada. His un
tiring energy and resolution carried out the scheme. And
the stalwart lumbermen, fishermen and mechanics, with your
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the cross — Nil Desperandum Christo duce — burnt down the
proud city of Louisburg— the key of France's power fell
before their impetuous zeal.

Thus was the honor of England redeemed by Yankee
hands, and the capture of Louisburg, fruit not of the Cabi
net of London, but of the boldness of New-England mer
chants, was the only trophy England could offer to set oft'
the loss of Madras, her failure before Pondlcherry, the great
victory France gained at Fontenoy and the shameful surren
der of the Elbe. This surely was glory for New- Hampshire,
for Massachusetts and for all their gallant sons who went
down on that expedition — it infused an unwonted ardor into
all — the cry went forth that the power of France must cease
upon the Continent; one expedition after another was plan
ned, and in fifteen years, of those fisheries which had once
given employment to ten thousand French seamen and five
hundred vessels — all was gone but Miquelon — Canada had
iallen — France's nursery of seamen broken up — her whole
power crumbled in the dust. I will not detain you to speak
of the glorious part the New-Hampshire rangers took in this
last struggle : — Rogers and Stark— have they not become as
immortal as history ?

The successes of this brilliant epoch of American history
were not confined to the North ; the genius and energy of
Vaughan had diffused its force even beyond his sanguine
hopes — Spain lost as much as France, Florida and the left
bank of the Mississippi were surrendered to England, and
for the second time Havana, the peerlees city oT the Gulf, was
captured by that invincible race who spe-ak the English
tongue, the Mora Castle falling before assault as easily as the
quail before the sportsman's gun, and the flag of England,
borne by Yankee hands, streamed like a meteor over all the
seas and all the coasts north of the Carribean sea. This
was a new era in the history of continents. The events of
these fifteen years unrolled the leaves of the Sybil, and show
ed the destiny of this continent. One great union stretched
along the whole Atlantic coast — Cuba, Canada and the old
thirteen original States of this union, as well as Jamaica,
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, all were embraced within
its limits. To the contemplation of those who hoped for a
glorious future to this continent, how grand was this exten-
«ive brotherhood. The star of young America rose above the
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and of peace, it was the star of Union — it told that old things
should pass away, and North America should be one broth
erhood of independent States, joined together in a federal
league of amity, peace and reciprocal equality. Here new
thoughts of progress now agitated the bold hearts. The objects
for which the goodness of God had reserved this continent were
made manifest to those who had faith in man. The holy
cause of liberty, the uplifting of down trodden humanity, the
triumph of the laboring classes over misgovernment and cor
ruption were objects to be achieved here. The sun of Gre
cian and Roman liberty had gone down in blood and storm.
Nowrose the new luminary whose brilliant light was to bless
the world. Thus the results attending the foresight and genius
of a Portsmouth boy made England great, glorious and pow
erful, and filled the heart of every American with that ambi
tion and daring which led to our national independance, long
before the grave had closed upon the actors of this great
drama. Foremost in the revolution, as in the French war,
the Portsmouth boys under Langdon, first attacked the Brit
ish forts ; and the powder you then captured was spent a
year afterwards in the gallant and glorious defence of Bun
ker Hill. It is within the memory of all, that New-Hamp
shire fought out some years of the revolution on her own
hook, and without connection with the Continental Congress.
Her lonely position was a glorious one. Molly Stark was
not a widow, but the blood of those who dared invade this
little State, watered the fields of Bennington, and of all their
strong columns, not one escaped death or captivity. It was
on this occasion that John Langdon, a brave soldier, a great
statesman and a rich merchant, great in his courage and de
votion to liberty, uttered those emphatic words in the Legis
lature : — 'I have no money left to advance for this expedition,
but I have my plate, and twenty casks of Tobago rum, and
I offer all this to fit out this expedition of Gen. Stark's.' —
With the proceeds of this rum were the troops of New- Hamp
shire equipped for that victory. Why should I extend this
theme? Vaughan and Langdon are but the type of the
race who have made old Portsmouth their home, prompt in
act, wise in council, devoted in deeds ; they were men of
destiny, always the leaders, though like all leaders, not al
ways reaping to themselves the fruits of their labors."

The destinies of this continent have been in times past
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cease to be ? Is commerce to be extended, who more expe
rienced ;n its mysteries ? Is free trade and reciprocity to be
extended over this continent, have you not the iron rails con
necting you to Canada more closely and easily than when
Rogers' New Hampshire Rangers sought Quebec in battle
array? If you saw advantages in uniting the North under
one government, when Vaughan planned the stroke, will
you now shrink when the vast population there tender a
commercial union ? Who dares to say that Portsmouth
sleeps ? Who dreams that she is a sluggard in that great
race of progress and manifest destiny to which she gave the
impetus and led the way? It is not so. She led the way in
the lumber trade, she led the way in ship building, and she
still holds the lead ; and now when steam and iron are the
mighty means of progress, she is prepared to use them, and
my word for it, she will not idle her great advantages in sigh
ing for the past, but, like a noble city, avail herself of the ad
vantages which nature, art and industry give to her. And yet,
again, in the front rank waves forth to the world that resist
less banner of progress which she first unfurled to create
events in the history of this continent, whose mighty force
changed the destiny of empires, the fate of nations. You,
ye fishermen of Portsmouth, who boast of Vaughan and
Pepperell and Langdon, as of your unconquered race, who
under John Paul Jones first taught haughty England how to
strike her flag to the stars and stripes of Uncle Sam — you
who fought four glorious wars for a free fishery and a free
ocean, you know well the route across the water that leads
to those fishing grounds. Your ancestors have proclaimed
the great principle of free fisheries to the world, .and glori
ously have beaten from the broad face of ocean every na
tion that has attempted to monopolize them from you. Are
you prepared at this day to surrender the rights you have
watered with your blood for a hundred years ? A jealous
and a powerful enemy, falsely and wickedly, are striving to
rob you of that which you gloriously won from gallant
France. Perverting treaties, they sieze your ships and im
prison your seamen ; and the time is coming when you must
choose whether you will submit to oppression and wrong,
or like your ancestors, with strong hands assert your rights.
New Hampshire sprung from the loins of the cod fishery,
and her interests are too intimately joined to that branch of
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tunate at this crisis that a son of hers has the control of the
foreign relations of the country,; it is a guarantee for your
interests; the robbers of your fishery must choose between
the olive branch of reciprocity and the gleaming sword of
American justice. Let them look on the crumbled ruins of
Louisburg.

But I have said enough ; my object was briefly to remind
you how a centnry ago the dark veil which hides their desti
nies from mankind was lifted for a moment on this conti
nent ; it fell again am.id the storm of war to await the hour
when the moral regeneration of the people should be com
pleted by independence and firm-set republican institutions.
In the rapid and steady progress of that work your states
men and your people have lent no ordinary aid; and as the
manifest destiny of North America advances towards its
consummation, the sons of Portsmouth -will remember the
glorious part the old Continentals have borne ,iri .the seed
time of great deeds, and as continental in pdlicy as their an
cestors, faithfully perform their part in the work until Amer
ica shall be one Sparta of free institutions, and the lamp -fires
of tyrants shall be smothered before the progress of civiliza
tion and liberty.

The following letter from the venerable Capt. John Mc-
Clintock, now in his ninety-third year, was then read :

PORTSMOUTH, N. H. July 4, 1853.
To the Sons of Portsmouth, — Gentlemen, —

•Sickness in my family deprives me of the pleasure of
meeting with you to enjoy the day; and we bid you a hearty
welcome to the city of Portsmouth, to unite with us in the
celebration of this glorious , day of our independence, the
Fourth of July. Portsmouth was the only city, and New-
Hampshire the only State, during the war of our revolution,
that the enemy did not possess a foot of land in. We
captured their army before they could pass our line. Few
of us are left who were engaged in the trials and sacrifices
<of the war to obtain our independence and establish our
government. May we, with one heart and one mind, unite
to support our Constitution, that was purchased at so dear a
rate by some of our noblest, purest, and bestiblood that the
:pulse of life ever contained. May this day be celebrated so
long as the Granite Hills shall remain.

-Respectfully, JOHN MOCLINTOCK.

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At the call of A. A. Peterson, Esq. of the New- York delega
tion, three cheers were given for the revolutionary patriot,
John McClintock.

Hon. Ichabod Bartlett sent the following toast :

Sons of Portsmouth resident abroad, who are present upon this occasion, Portsmouth may
now say, like the mother of the Gracchii — " These, these are my jewels."

A toast from the Mayor of Boston, at the city celebration
at Faneuil Hall, was now announced, which was received
with " three cheers for Faneuil Hall." Mr. Fields read it as
follows :

Boston and Portsmouth— The electric chain of communication which now unites them, is but
a type of the living sympathy which bound them together in. the days that tried men?s souls.

The Mayor of Portsmouth in behalf of the Sons responded :

The City of Boston—the nurse of Freedom— when we forget her may our right hands
forget their cunning.

W. H. Y. Hackett, Esq. also sent back :

We are proud of thai part of Boston which belongs to Portsmouth.

The tenth regular toast was then read —

10.— The State of JVeie Hampshire — The Sparta of America — while her sons have extended
her fame through all lands, her women hare never seen the smoke of our enemy's camp-fires.

[Music— Old Granite State.']

11. — JHaion, Woodbwry, and Webster — Statesmen and Jurists whose names are known in,
every civilized laj id — they first obtained fame and reputation in our cily.
[Music — Dirge."]

The eleventh regular toast was responded to by Samuel
A. Badger, Esq. of New- York. [We have not obtained a
copy of his remarks.] He closed with this sentiment :

The President of the United States— A Son of New-Hampshire.

12. — The Union of these United States — As- well as on- written Constitutions, we rely on the
Railroad and Telegraph to preserve it.

[Music— Star Spangled Banner.']

The twelfth regular toast was responded to by Matthew
Hale Smith, Esq. of Boston, in an eloquent and beautiful
speech, of which we have HO report.

13.— Our United States— however bounded, our Brothers wherever tcattered—f&t us
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY,"
[Music — Yankee Doodle."]

Charles L. Frost, Esq. of New- York, was loudly called5
for, and responded in an off-hand speech, during which he-
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We have heard it said, and he gloried in the idea, that
" Portsmouth is a good place to emigrate from." In the last
twenty years he had been a resident in the Western and
Middle States ; it was therefore proper for him to respond to
the sentiment on which he had been called up. To his
distant abodes he had carried the reputation which a residence
in Portsmouth had given him ; and to it he owed much of
the confidence and respect he had received abroad. Yes,
Portsmouth is not only a good place to emigrate from, but
we find it also one of the best places in the world to return to.
[We regret that his speech was not reported.]

Hon. Ichabod Goodwin was then loudly called for, and
on rising was received with a perfect storm of applause :

He felt disposed to welcome most heartily all the wanderers
from Old Strawberry Bank. He was a native of Maine,
and he could well understand their feelings and account for
the enthusiasm which that day prevailed. His own native
home, if homely, was none the less dear to him, and he
could feel to exclaim in reference to the place of his nativity,
" When I forget thee may my right hand forget its cunning."
He had but one son, and he would ask for him no higher
blessing than to feel assured that such a reception as the
returned wanderers before him had received, would be
extended to him, should he be placed in similar circum
stances. In conclusion, Mr. Goodwin extended to all a
cordial invitation to visit again their homes on each succeed
ing anniversary of our nation's birth-day, and conlinue the
intercourse thus happily commenced.

Three cheers, that made the welkin ring, were given for
the honorable gentleman on retiring.

Albert R. Hatch offered the following :

The Press— The Safeguard of our Institutions — the voice by which the people speak. Ports
mouth is proud of her contributions to the fraternity, which the whole union delights to honor.

C. W. Brewster was called upon to respond to this toast,
and submitted the following :

Mr. President, —

" The Press — the Press," is the toast. Sir, you have seen
that powerful instrument borne about in the procession to-day
by garlanded oxen, a thing as tame and harmless as though
it were only a lion encaged. But, sir, set it in motion, seize
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inhabitants the power .of every wild beast of the. desert is set
at defiance. What brings us here to-day ? what power has
been brought to bear to gather thousands from Jialf of ,tbe
States of tliis wide .Union to their kindred and their home?
The press, in its simplest accents and its mildest tones, ,had
said, " Come home" and all of the world visible to us here
was set in motion ! And here we are, though boasting to
be freemen, literally swayed in every movement by the press.!
Would you shake off its" influence ? would yau.be free from
its power? The toast just given says, No! To blot the
sun from the firmament, or the Fourth of July from the cal
endar, would be scarcely less felt than the loss of the press.
Knowing many of you at home and abroad to be the tangi
ble friends of the press, please accept the sentiment :

True Patriots— Those who regularly oil the lever that moves the world.

Hon. Richard Jenness was called upon, but declined
speaking on account of the lateness of the hour, and handed
to the President the following sketch of his remarks and the
accompanying toast :

Welcome to the Sons of Portsmouth ! It is a common
saying that blessings brighten as they take their flight, but
we have the greatest surprise and pleasure as we number
ours returning. We had been modestly ignorant of our
own worth in sending out so many of our own Children to
build up families and a name for themselves and us else
where ; and we hope now we shall not .be unreasonably
proud when they come back to share their honors with us.
We have every reason to be proud, to be sure, but lest these
ycung ones should presume upon the '" old folks at home,"
we wish to assure them that the old nest is still in pretty
good repair, and we hope to send out in future a few fledg
lings who will kindly bring back an olive-branch of peace
and good-will to us. We trust that all our sons will always
everywhere recognize each other as brothers, as we shall be
always glad to welcome them home.

The Sons of Portsmouth — tn olden time the pions emigrant'before starting lit a lamp in the
temple, with which he might kindle the sacred fire in his new home ; but .we rejoice that our
•eons have not only kept the fire of intelligence they carried from us burning, but have brought
it back to assure us of their faithful care, And rekindle, if need be, our failing lamps.

By M. P. Kennard, a Vice President of the Boston organ
ization :

Old Strawberry Bank—It, exhibits to-day a new era in banking policy — the voluntary return
of its circulating issue in an improved condition, and all with good impressions.

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By Henry Gocldard, of Portland;

Brethren and Sons of Portsmouth : — There is something not only novel bat
partaking of grandeur in the thought that the natives of any town or cifcy, of
various generations, 'Should by invitation from their birth place, with one
accord, assemble there on the day of our national jubilee.

The spectacle we exhibit and witness, a return of the sons of Portsmouth,
of various occupations and professions, from many sections of the land, some
of whom have never 'before met since they left it, and others (a solemn
thought) will not meet again during our earthly sojourn, is one of the deepest
interest to every reflecting mind.

Jn view of our social relations how delightful is the thought that as sons of
Portsmouth we are now only enjoying the domestic and family relation extend
ed one degree further than its usual limits, in thus fraternally and filially, as
one great family, at once meeting each other and visiting our honored parent,
now the city of Portsmouth, than which I know of no more honorable birtk
place in our land.

The great man of New Hampshire and of the nation once humorously
remarked that " New-Hampshire is a good State to emigrate from." Shall
we not say that Portsmouth is not only a good place to emigrate from, but
a good place to abide in, and above all, as proved this day, a good mother to
return to, who thus welcomes her children home in so liberal and hearty a
manner, from their various enterprises over the land ? And, brethren, is not
a city deserving of honor, which through its children has done so much to
people and strengthen our country, while it has been at the same time increas
ing its resources and population at home ?

My observations and recollections of Portsmouth extend back with distinct
ness to 1793, since when, if it has lost something of the courtly air and stateli-
ness of some of its population, (for it was then fresh from the regal style and
pomp of the administration of the British Governor Wentworth, the traces of
which were then most clearly visible,) it has since as an offset doubled its pop
ulation and more than trebled its wealth, without diminishing its hospitality.

Portsmouth has also since the Revolution and the time of the Langdons and
their cotemporaries, been well known in our National Council ; she has fur
nished many members to the Senate as well as to the House of Representa
tives ; and of the former permit me to say, one to a further distinction, that of
doing what a more recent member of the Senate there stated that no man had
ever done, and it was not to be supposed any man would ever do, — declined
a seat in that body after he had been elected to it.

1 close with an expression of the hope that the multitude of our hearty
greetings to-day may be succeeded by most pleasant and affectionate recollec
tions in the future, of this meeting in Portsmouth, of July 4th, 1853, and of
•our cordial and magnificent reception in this city of our birth.

By William Walker of South-Newmarket :

Tiie citizens of Portsmouth — proverbial for their hospitality — They receive us as their guejsts
with open arms and warm hearts; and in the tasteful arrangements ami munificent provision
for, the occasion, they not only honor the day and their guests, but highly honor their city.

By B. P. Shillaber of Boston :

Tiie Daughters of Portsmouth — the stare of her domestic galaxy — by no means lesser lights
than her sons.

By Theodore S. Harris of Boston :

As the " Sons'' to-day cherish their early feelings by a visit to the spot of their nativity, go
may they, in the eve of lifu, return to end their days in the land of their fathers.

By W. H. Y. Hackett :

The Schools of Portsmoutt— May they continue to furnish such proof of their usefulness as
now eurround us.

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By James P. Walker of Lowell :

Mr. Mayor, —

While gentlemen have been awakening many and pleasant recollections of
times past, there hare been floating before my mental optics visions of an
ancient building, long, low, and dingy, rather resembling a section of ropewalk
than a seminary of learning ; where, notwithstanding its unpromising exterior,
hundreds of Portsmouth boys received those rudiments of knowledge which
have been the stepping-stones to whatever they may have since attained.

From the early date of the building in question, and the fact that our fathers
before us were accustomed to assemble for purposes of instruction within its
walls, probably few buildings in our old town are so well known by so large a
number as the Old South School House.

The Old South School House ! the rallying-point of the south-enders !
Who does not remember when juvenile sectional spirit ran high, when our town
was " our country" and we were " northerners" or " southerners" according to
an accident of birth or residence ; when " Mill Dam" combined forces with
" Tattle Point" to resist the incursions of " Christian Shore" and " Rock Pas
ture" — the South School-yard was then the citadel whence issued forth the troops,
conquering or to be conquered. And then in more peaceful times, 'on former
anniversaries of this the natal day of our nation's independence, when we
yonkers arrayed in blue and white, and painfully decorated with oak-leaf
garlands and flowery wreaths, were marshalled forth in proud array to add by
our important presence to the festivities of the day, what a scene of bustle, of
marching and countermarching, did that same south school-yard present !

The old house has in these latter days given place to a new edifice, more
modern, elegant, and commodious, typical of the progress of the age ; and to
the regret of many there remains not a relic, or sketch even, of the old house,
save only " those pictures by memory drawn."

Thus these landmarks one after another disappear, and by-and-by we shall
disappear like them ; it is fitting, therefore, and pleasant to cherish their mem
ory, in the hope that if we also are successful in answering the end of our crea
tion, our day and generation shall not be quite forgotten.

Permit me, sir, in conclusion to give you :

The memory of the Old South School House, and the very good health, continued prosperity,
and long life of two of its surviving masters, Phineas Nichols and Alfred M. Hoyt, Esqs.— the
Alpha and Omega of my south-school-boy life.

By Oliver March of Lowell :

The City of Portsmouth andiu environs. — Its beautiful walks, its pleasant rides, its sunshine
and its shade, its fresh water and its salt water, and last but not least its fair daughters— not to
be excelled by any city in the Union.

By Wm. G. Wise, of Lowell :

Our Absent Brothers— May God bless, prosper and preserve them, wherever they may be.

By B. H. PenhaUow, of Lowell :

To the memory of the hallowed dead of Portsmouth — May the remembrance of their blessed
example ever incite us to the practice of every Christian virtue.

By Lieut. J. A. Underwood, U. S. R. M.:

Our old Teacher, WUliam C. Harris, Esq.—

Wherever we rove, other teachers we see ; .
Others to love, but none like thee.

By S. P. Hanscom, reporter of the Boston Daily Times :

Lows Kossuth—We recognize him in the light of his own language addressed to the Presi
dent of the United States : — " A living protestation against the violence of foreign interference
oppressing the sovereign right of nations to regulate their own domestic concerns. A living
protestation against centralization oppressing the State right of self-government."

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By J. B. Hay den of Boston :

The Ladies— However much those of" 76" may have awakened a spirit of independence id
the hearte of the young- men of their day, the ladies of Portsmouth inspire any other than a
love of independence in our hearts.

By Garland Turell, of Boston :

New-Hampshire — The Mecca of the natural world— whose divinity shall forever yield inspi
ration lo innumerable pilgrims, that seek to worship at her mountain shrines.

By J. "Wendell, Jr. of Boston :

The Portsrnouth Boys resident in New- York and Boston— Like the north and south mill-ponds
of their native town, the waters of which like the affections when opportunity offers gladly
reunite in paying homage to the place of their paternity.

By Daniel R. Sheafe :

The principle of progress has marked the exertions of the Sons of Portsmouth — May the
principle of reform yeibe theirs in this their promised land.

By Jere. Dearborn, of Boston:

Wben Mr. Fields waa called out at the Dinner, the south end boys gave him three cheers.
If I had been in the tent when Shillaber was called for, I should have given the following :

What if the South end boys have their Fields, we of the north have our Mifflin's Geese to
roam independently over them ; and then it is the residence of the far famed Mrs. Partington <
and th« birth place of that young rascal Ike,

Who stole the sugar from the bowl, and put it in his Carpet Bag.

By Nathaniel Cotton of Cambridgeport :

The early settlers nf Portsmouth — our Ancestors. — Their privations and virtues should ever
be remembered with filial gratitude. Peace be to their memory.

By Rev. C. W. Reding, of Beverly, Mass.

Porttmouth — Our natal city, — the home of our earlier days. — rendered doubly dear to many
of us as the resting place of all that was mortal of our fathers. Most gladly have we, her
devoted sons, hastened back from our wanderings, and, in response to her maternal call, di
rected our steps to this altar. Upon it would we now lay the offering of grateful hearts ; and
here would we leave our fervent prayer that a benignant Providence would continue to watch
over her interests, and endow her with every element of ah enduring prosperity.

By Hon, William Plumer, of Epping :

PortsrrtOMh — Rich in its recollections of the past, and strong in its hopes for the future, may
a be yet stronger and richer, in a new spirit of union, enterprise and activity, in its onward
course of social, industrial and moral improvement.

Mr. Charles Gushing, formerly of Portsmouth, now of
Dorchester, sent the following toast :

Independence and Union — Now and forever— our glory and defence.

By B. D. Laighlon of Stratham :

The Fourth of July, 1853— Its celebration in " Old Strawberry Bank" will furnish materials
for a bright page in her history ; in that upon that day the dust which had gathered upon the
" old family record" was swept away.

SALEM, July 4, 1853.

Hon. H. D. Walker, — My Dear Sir : My fractured limb is not sufficiently
strong to warrant my leaving home, to participate io the pleasure which will
be enjoyed by thousands in my native place to-day. This I regret, but send
you the enclosed, to offer on the occasion of the great gathering.

Memory of John W. Foster — Beloved and honored in life ; in death, sincerely mourned and
lamented. May the " Sons of Portsmouth" emulate his numerous virtues.

Very respectfully, JOHN BALL.

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By Rev. Dr. Burroughs :

The 'Bank that lias never failed ; whose issues have had an universal circulation for more
than two centuries ; have always been in good odor ; and have blessed myriads. Such' of
these living issues as have now come back to the Bank we welcome as genuine and true, the
beet of stock and as good as gold — I mean The Strawberry Bank.

By John Christie :

The Declaration of Independence — May the Supreme Judge of the world, to whom the signers
of that glorious instrument appealed for the rectitude of their intentions", grant that the truths
therein promulgated may speedily pervade the globe.

By John Harrat :

The Sons of Portsmouth, heit present as our guests to-day — They have- not returned as did
the prodigal son to his father's house ; therefore we, who have remained' at home, will not
murmur because the fatted calf has been killed, but go in right heartily for a participation in
the father's joyous welcoming. They have fought with success thus far the battle of life
among strangers; and, if but for their filial affection, they well deserve it.

By M. F. Wendell:

The Fourth of July — A day illustrious in the history of human events ; it required Union to
obtain it, and it requires union to preserve it. May the noble deeds of our fathers receive the
gratitude of their sons.

By Israel Kimball :

The Daughters of Portsmouth —

Though native sons forsake their homes

And dwell the country o'er,
Her daughters, fairest of the fair,
Adopt as many more.

By Albert Laighton :

July 4th. 1853 — A day in the calender of life made sacred to the " Sons of Portsmouth-'' by
a thousand memories of home.

Yankee progress in the good old town of Portsmouth — The celebration of two events in one
day, the glorious severity-seventh anniversary of our national independence, and the joyous
retiirn of her son* to the homes of their childhood— a day that will be treasured up in the
memory of the old: and the young by its many happy associations.

By John Bennett, City Clerk :

Our City—Soou may her locality, attractions and business be such, as will prevent her sons
from emigrating.

By I. Bartlett Claggett :

The Sons of Portsmouth — As the Romans hailed their victorious armies, returning home
With the spoils of conquered nations, so do we this day hail " The Sous of Portsmouth''
returning home in triumph with the well-earned honors of adopted cities.

By Col. Gideon W. Walker :

The Sons of Portsmouth, and this our Nation's day. — Our native land and native place. — May
the hearts of generations to come beat in unison, as on the occasion which has this day drawn
us together.

By John Knowlton :

Our Sons who have returned to spend with us this glorieus Anniversary — We would have
gladly retained them with us ; but' as we coul'd not, we greatly rejoice in their prosperity
abroad.

By Jeremiah Johnson :

The Sons of Portsmouth— We give thern'a hearty welcome ; may the same calling that look
""" from their homes soon call them back again, viz : business and employment.

same :

It is impossible not to love the thought, and the man who uttered the thought, " that the
States of the Union, distinct as the billows, are one like the sea ;" and may we not add : the
wisdom of our forefathers, rising from the mighty deep, which beseeches us to avoid the
breakers which they so safely shunned.

By

William M. Fernald of Bostoir forwarded us an>
address of twenty-four pages. Our limits forbid its insertion.
It closes with the following sentiment:

Honor to the. professional talent of the Sons of Portsmouth — There is not a town in New-Eng
land that knows better how to manufacture it, where to find it, or to keep it ill safety till the
morning and raid-day gfdry.

Ex-Mayor A. Grecnleaf also forwarded us an excellent
address, too long for our limits, closing with the sentiment :

Portsmouth— While represented so ably and honorably by persons in distant cities (taking
the delegation now present as a fair simple,) there need be no apprehensions thai the honor
of Old Strawberry Bank, will ever be compromised.

Our Returned Sorts. — Now that they have seen that the old homestead has been kept in goo&
order, may they be induced to promote its future improvement.

WORCESTER, July 1, 1853.
To Francis E. Parker, Esq. Chairman of the Delegations from Portsmouth, July 4,

1853.

MT DEAR SIR :— Were it a practicable thing, I should be with the SODS of
Portsmouth at their first and olden home, on our great national festive day
this year. But other duties forbid this luxury. So I send my greetings to the
multitude who may go up to this good banquet of souls, amid the recollections
of the past, which will be so joyftilly revived' on this occasion; My heart wilU
be in the midst of your festivities on that day ; and while I lire, so shall live
my warmest wishes for the peace and- prosperity of all Portsmouth sons and'
daughters of the present or of the coming generations. Allow me this word of
contribution :

'IVfid his wanderings o'er the earth,
To the home that gave him birth,
Will !he son of Portsmouth turn,
While his lingering life-fires burn.
That his vital power be fed,
Comes he to her Fountain Head.
O'er rough ways when courage wanes,
Turns he to her ancient Plains.
Through the haze that time has made,
He espies the old Parade,
Where the mirth-blaze Icoms so bright,-
As on Independence night.

Long Wharf, Pier, and Old Spring Hill,
With their sights his visions fill.
Little Harbor still retreats ;
Where Long Lane the morning greets ;
Up Newington's piney way,
When the "summer sunbeams play ;
On tire river, bank and tree,
Tints of home his dreamings see.
When at last these dreamings end,
This one thought his soul befriend,-
That, his lohgtest wanderings o'ef,
He may land oil Christian Shore.

3. G. ADAMS.

The following were found among the sentiments given at
the tables by the ladies — not in audible tones, but previously
iiUerwoven in the boquets which decorated the paviliom

Our boast shall be of native " FIELDS"' of song,

And briliant " STASH KINGS'' swell the noble throng.

How life-like thro' the mist of years;
Each well remembered face appears.

It- is life's common lot, to link our hearts to things that flee
The light of other days.

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0 sweet 'tis to visit the home of our birth,
The loveliest spot on the face of the earth.

Our heart mid all changes, wherever we roam,
Ne'er loses its love for the old folks at home.

•Our Kindred and Friends— Though absent, not forgotten.

Webster, Woodbury, Mason— Their voices echo from the past more eloquently than any living
tone.

Haven, Foster— The friends and guides of our childhood. Our children shall rise up and
call them blessed. Departed they still speak.

The Memories of our Childhood.
'Our Jlguedutl—TXo fountain of Lethe, but a well-spring of pleasant memories.

'Tis the charter of freedom, attend to the call>
United we stand, divided we fall.

Adorned with stars so richly bright, we form a constellation,
Where every star with modest light, shall gild Us own true station.

Like the bees, if home our spoils we bear,
Hived in our hearts it turns to nectar there.

Religion be our guiding star as we sail through the sea of life.
Jfeio-Hampshire— Her pride : high-minded Men.

Home, sweet Home, there is no place like Home.
Washington— What title shall he have? Not one. His name alone strikes every title dead,

A Welcome glad to the Portsmouth boys '.

They have come to the home of their school-day joys.

Our Sons have come from lar, our Daughters, where are they ?
A joyous Welcome waits them all in their olden home te^day .

" Home" ! 'tis a word of more than magtc spell,
Whose sacred power the wanderer best can tell.

The Day tee Celebrate— Not noted on the calendar of time, but hallowed by the grateful
songs of freemen.

" The bonds of early friendship still around the heart entwine,
And memory loves to linger yet on days of Aald Lang Syne."

Our Schools— The safeguards of our Liberty and Virtue. Their pupils are their highest praise.

May the starry flag waving, still glory pursue,
And freedom find ever a guardian in you.

The benediction was pronounced by Rev, Drk Peabody,
and at about 7 1-2 o'clock the company separated, one and
all delighted with their afternoon entertainment*

'THE PKOMENADB CONCERT, at the Pavilion in the evening, was atl-ended
by several thousands. It was brilliantly illuminated by gas, and not less by
the brilliant eyes of that better portion who did not appear in the tent in the
day-time. Here was the place to recognize old acquaintances ; and many here
met who had been separated five, ten, twenty, thirty, and even forty years.
Neighbors here met from abroad who had no knowledge that they were natives
of the same place until the call of return went forth.

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The gathering of tho Sons of Portsmouth from abroad, the artistic display of
mottoes and decorations in our streets, the procession, the collation at the tent,
and the evening levee, are the subjects which deserve note as a matter of history,
not only local, but also interesting for exhibiting to other towns and cities such
incidents as may tend to bring about a new mode of pleasantly and usefully
observing our great national anniversary.

A Boston writer says : — " Portsmouth was in her queenly dress ; the ' SOBS'
were proud of their mother ; the mother was lavish of hospitality and love to
the 'sons.' Thanks to that son who suggested the beautiful thought that
brought us together. That thought will be developed and carried out by other
cities and villages, producing the pleasant fruits of social harmony, kind
remembrances, and brotherly love.

As I stepped from the cars the signs of 'friendship and welcome' were every
where visible ; these words and others like them were interwoven with flowers
and smiled in evergreens ; they were posted at the corner of every street, and
with a pen dipped in love were written in living characters on every heart*;
every one admired the simplicity of these mottoes ; no one doubted their sin
cerity. The whole city was animated with the warm glow of fraternal love,
which found its expression in numerous forms of tasteful elegance and ample
hospitality.

I joined the procession, which was certainly one of the most interesting I
ever saw. I could not but wonder at the ingenious contrivance which displayed
so great a variety of pleasing and useful objects. Mechanical and mercantile
arts, the forge, the workshop, the graceful ship saluting us with artillery, the
fine display of merchandize in the moving shop — all passed before us, and told
05 that such a people could not be otherwise than prosperous and happy. The
Signs of thrift were visible all around us. Industry and happiness dwell to
gether, and the symbols of the one are the promise and pledge of the other.

We passed down Islington street, and thence through Market, under a suc
cession of evergreen arches, more beautiful than I ever saw before in Boston or
elsewhere. The names of the different States were painted among the foliage,
and the whole display produced a most lively and pleasing effect. We contin
ued our march ; it was no task to walk in such a procession ; sweeter music
never floated upon Italian air, and sweeter voices were never heard in tones of
greeting and love, and fairer forms were never seen to glide among the sons
and daughters of men. New Hampshire poured forth her beauty and her love ;
we drank of her crystal waters, presented by maidens of whom the nation
might justly be proud. We took it from their willing hands in the pauses of
ocr walk, and blessed them in our hearts.

Some of our number were truly fortunate ; showers of fragrance now and
then descended upon us, in boquets of summer flowers ; but being myself one
of the ' fathers,' I was not surprised that these showers took a direction a little
remote from my position, and consequently they fell into other hands ; but it
was all right, envy had no place among us, and each one was glad for his
neighbor.

At three o'clock we entered the tent. The arrangements were admirable ;
nearly two thousand people took their seats as quietly and in as perfect order
as can well be imagined ; contrivance was the order of the day ; everything
was dons right, because all possible contingencies were foreseen and provided
for. The tables were spread with a liberal hand, and the hospitality of the
city was equally honorable to herself and satisfactory to her guests."

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A SEEMON BY KEY. A. P. PEABODY, D. D.

Prepared in reference to the return of the Sons of Portsmouth from abroad, and deliv
ered at the Stone Church on Sunday morning, July 3, 1853.

INSEBTED AT THE SOLICITATION OF MANY OF THE HZARIRS.

MARK V. 19.
"Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee."

In the metropolis of our country, the reservoir that sends its health-giving
current to every house, and lends itself to unnumbered ministries of use, orna
ment and luxury, is the pride and joy of the city ; it is visited daily by hun
dreds of strangers, and bears engraved on enduring masonry, to be transmitted
to distant generations, the names of those who projected and conducted the
emerprize. But the river, •without which the reservoir would be worthless, rises
one hardly knows where, pursues its unnoticed way through forest and meadow,
and where it is crossed or skirted by the highways of commerce the busy citi
zen hardly pauses to think, — "Here flows the very life tide of the queenly city."
Thus is our recognition and our gratitude constantly prone to rest at the foun
tain of immediate supply instead of mounting to the source. To-morrow will
be a day much and long to be remembered among us. Our great political
festival, in itself so rich in themes for gratitude,is to be gladdened by the reunion
of the long parted, by the filling up of many diminished household circles, by the
return to the home of their youth of a multitude whose worth and whose honors
make us proud of the place that gave them birth. How busy will memory be
in the social and domestic intercourse of this season, recalling the images of
those who have gone to their rest, rehearsing school-boy narratives, disin
terring long forgotten experiences, raking up from the ashes of many years and
fanning into a genial flame the embers of youthful friendships, burnishing the
rusted links of chains of intimacy lengthened, yet by no means sundered ! And
to many hearts is not the light of this day of the Son of Man eclipsed by the
Jubilant joy which will take its multiform shape and find its many- voiced ut
terance with to-morrow's dawn ; and our festival of redeeming love, with its
tlender array of guests, its simple ritual and its low-voiced hymn, belittled and
dwarfed in comparison with the multitudinous shout and song, parade and
pageantry, gaiety and gladness in which thousands are to participate 1 Yet
here is the source ; to morrow you will but drink at the gathering of its waters.
Hence flow the streams that shall make glad the city. And would you trace
back the political freedom, safety and blessedness, the domestic joy, the long-
cterished friendships,th& undying loves, the dear remembrances of the departed,
the tenderness and faithfulness of the living, which will fill to-morrow's cup of
gladness, here, in the sanctuary, at the altar would go up your wannest vows,
your most fervent thanksgivings ; not one of you would remain a cold and list-
leas participator in the mere form of godliness ; not one of you would turn away
from the proffered emblems of your Savior's love. I may in the afternoon refer
to the connection of Christianity with our civil freedom. I would now speak of
its agency as regards the loves and friendships of our domestic and social estate.
I would remind those who have come home to their friends, and those to whom
they have come home, how great things the Lord has done for them.

Homa ! what a complex word ! How much does it embrace ! The endear
ments of infancy, the solace of age, the mutually trustful heart and helping
hand, kindness that has grown by perpetual drafts upon its resources, sympathy
t&e more entire the more constantly it has been claimed, the steps upborne and
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the frowns of a bleak world and redoubled joy in every visiting of a benignant
Providence, 'blessings multiplied because divided, magnified because shared.
And all this t» the godsend of Christianity. In Jesus alone are the families of
the earth blessed. The very word home which nas its synonym in every lan
guage of 'Christendom, has none, so far as I know., in any language that has not
frown up nader Christian auspices. For our text the evangelist could find
none but the comparatively frigid expression, "Go to thine house ;" for before
Christ men's bouses were not homes. The marriage covenant, the very basis
of all domestic repose, union and felicity, had no sacredness or permanence.
The wife could not call her house or family her own for a single day. Ths
caprice of a moment might throw the tender, faithful mother, childless and
widowed, upon the scorn of a pitiless world. She had then no inducement to
put on the unwithering grace* of mind and heart and character, to render her
self worthy of permanent esteem and confidence, or to discharge those numerous
and momentous duties and to diffuse those numberless and nameless influences,
the fruit of which can be reaped only after many days. She rather sought by
intrigue, by low cunning, or at best by superficial accomplishments and blan
dishments, to retain from day to day her doubtful sceptre, to minister to the
pleasure of the passing hour, and to pamper even the most sordid tastes and
•diabolical passions, rather than imperil her supremacy by attempting to oppose
or reform them. Jesus first impressed the seal of inviolable sanctity upon thie
nuptial vow. The "wife, the mother worthy of the name owes her place and
office in the household to him and to his gospel. The vestal fire on tho
hearth-stones of Christendom, the glow of which warms the hearts of the long
•absent, revives the hope that is ready lo perish, sends forth its beacon flame for
the prodigal in his far-off wanderings, was kindled by his breath, and its un
wearied priestess keeps her watch tis by his appointment. Abolish Christianity,
(France tried the experiment and still rues it bitterly,) abolish Christianity,
•relax its restraints, or 'destroy its pervading even when unconscious influence,
and in ten years time you might look in vain for a home among all your
houses, and might look in vain among their inmates 'for what would merit the
name of a family.

Before Christ also the parental bond sat loosely on the father's side. Our
phrase "bring up" or Braise" as applied to children, is translated from a Latin
word, which has come do-wn to us as a memorial of heartless barbarity. Ths
new-born child was laid upon the ground, and if the father took it up or raised
it, it was destined to live ; if not, it was exposed to perish. Domestic govern
ment was marked in the nations of antiquity by incalculable caprice and un-
tempered severity. The power of life and death twas in the father's hands, ami
instances of its wanton and cruel exercise were not lacking among men illus
trious for goodness, as goodness was accounted by the standard of the times,
But Christ has left his consecration on infancy and childhood. His hallowing
hands, laid on the beads of those Jewish children, rest still on the lambs of J;he
.flock. His words of blessing make the little one an heir of immortality, a
nurseling for heaven. The tender, reverent associations which he connected
with opening life, pervade all Christendom, leaven domestic institutions and
habits, penetrate thousands of hearts where there is no distinct recognition of
Christian principle, and secure for the child a safe and dear place in the affec
tions and the ministries of every parent not utterly given over to a reprobate
mind.

St. Paul described the Gentile world as without natural affection \ and the
history of all unevangelized communities is a perpetual commentary on his words
for it is full of such crimes as set at defiance the bonds of nature and the lawi
of kindred. It is impossible for <UB to say how far the doctrine of immortality
•Dters into domestic attachment, and helps to unite neighbors,friends and follow-
dlizens in mutual amity and good will. We are born into the atmosphere of
Christian faith. We wake with our "first conscious existence to a belief in im
mortality. Wo may be unaware of often -recurring to it, jet it is a tacit el*-

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meat in all our thoughts of one another ; it is the matrix in which oar attach
ments are moulded ; it is the self-repeating formula, that finds expression in thfe
communings of families, the intercourse of friends, our wayside greetings, our
acts of courtesy, our deeds of brotherly kindness. It has tacitly presided in the
great family gathering, which throngs our city to-day, and will whelm us with
tts living tide to-morrow. It is not as dying men and women, but as immo»-
tals, that we exchange the hearty grasp and the glad salutation, that we enlarge
the household table and pile the public feast. Did we look upon one another
as mere air-bubbles blown up for a little while on the ocean of a godless eterni
ty, one by one to burst and vanish forever, we should be afraid to love, reluctant
to enter into any closeness of sympathy, jealously solicitous of self-isolation,
anxious to avert every form and sentiment of intimacy, that we might shun the
pain of parting to meet no more. The parent, instead of looking upon his
child as his inalienable heart-property, would regard him as lent only for a
precarious term of months or years, and would measure the strength
of his attachment by the frailty of its tenure. Those now bound by the closest
friendship would be as mere casual acquaintance ; and as often as one disap
peared from the ranks of the living, there would be a fresh dissuasive from the
lorming of any relation, the sundering of which could give a momentary pain.
But now, into all our love and all our friendship there enters the feeling, that we
lose nothing by loving, that our friendship is not born to die, that the cherished
ones who go hence before us are treasures laid np for us in heaven, that these
mournful partings by the wayside are to have their offset in mansions above
where we meet to part no more.

There are aspects of our present gathering, which would be insnpportably sad
were it not for this relief. There return to us not a few after the absence of
many years ; and to them how is the face of society transfigured ! The fathers,
where are they ? How many of those who marked out our way and sat as
chief among us have left only the regretful memory of their excellence ! And
with them have gone matron and maid, those in the prime and pride of their
strength, youth in their budding promise, children in the first dew of their in
nocence. How few there are that return to unbroken households, none to larger
circles of coevals and intimates on which death has not cast its deep and re
peated shadow. Many of our guests will steal from the bnstle and tumult
the morning or the evening hour to visit the graves of the loved and honored
dead. But not in hopeless sadness, not with a disturbance of feeling that will
essentially impair the joy of meeting with those that survive and remain.. For
the resurrection angel will sit upon the grave stone, and of every one of the
faithful, pure, innocent dead, will say,— "He is not here, he is risen, behold the
place where they laid him." The thought that so much that was noble, true,
excellent, worthy to be immortal, had utterly perished, would blight the glad
ness of an occasion like this, even for the least serious, who should have forced
upon their remembrance so many over whose mortal part the grave has irre-
rocably closed. But the tacit feeling that they have not wholly died, will enter
into every thought of which they form a part ; and in many home circles, and
quiet gatherings of long divided friends, and mutual. rehearsals of the separate,
ways in which God has led them, will be felt the overshadowing presence of the
unseen witnesses, the undying sympathy of the revered and beloved, the voic&-
lesss welcome of those whose hand and smile were wont to greet the homeward
pilgrim.

How numerous are the remembrances of chastened sadness, that must throng
in the hearts of those who after long absence are our fellow-worshippers this
day ! Not a few retain an ever fresh remembrance of him who so long filled, ft»
the meekness of wisdom and the beauty of holiness-, the place where I now stand.
A still larger number recall with tender reverence him whom they loved as the
teacher and pastor of their childhood, who showed us how a Christian should
live, and in his own and God's best time, how hard it is to think in ours, how a
Christian can die. And with them our guests must mark the vacant places of

many in every age and every walk of life, who have gone to swell the larger
congregation of the dead. But there is not a thought of them even in the mind
of toe least religious, from which Jesus has not taken the bitterness. There i*
not one, who would not be horror-stricken by the most cursory survey of death's
doings in the circle of his kindred and acquaintance, if he supposed that they
had all sunk into the bottomless pit of annihilation. You can contemplate
(hese changes in society with calmness, and can talk even cheerfully about th»
departed, because there is all the while the latent feeling that there was a part
in every one of them that could not die, which the God of life, who breathed it
into them, has taken unto himself.

Suppose at the opening of this festival season an authentic voice from heaven,
proclaiming Christianity a delusion, Jesus a phantasm of crazy fanatics, immor
tality a baseless vision, death an eternal sleep and oblivion, — think you that
to-morrow's rejoicing conld go on in the anticipated course 1 As I imagins
the appalling disclosure, I see numberless ancient wounds re-opened, long
buried griefs are revived in the freshness of their flow, all the healing ministry
of time and of a benignant Providence is reversed, the images of the
dead block up all the paths of the living, despair sits on every coun
tenance but of the infant and the idiot, and those who seemed wholly un
conscious of immortality awake too late to agonizing regret for the loss cf a
hope they never knew how to prize. And then, were it announced that the
revelation of eternal death was not the truth of God, but had only been uttered
to arouse men's minds to the priceless worth of the immortal life brought to
light in the gospel, how would joy kindle from face to face and leap from heart
to heart ! We should again bury pur dead in hope, and admit the healing hand
to the wounds of bereaved affection, and drop again the weary burden of
accumulated griefs ; the generation of the living, taught by orief experi
ence, would turn to Christ, and cling to, him, and cherish his dear image in their
heart of hearts ; and from tongue to tongue would pass the language of trust
mg faith,— "Lord, to whom shall we go ? Thou hast the words of eternal life."
Itfy friends, I may have seemed in this discourse to be uttering the merest
truisms. But are they truths ? If so, their repetition is needed and timely.
There is in connection with this season much more than the mere wish to have a
splendid pageant and a memorable gala day. There is a feeling of obligation,
a conscientious feeling, which makes active in the preparations and hospitalities
of the seasoa very many for whom mere show or gaiety would have but little
attraction. They deem it right that the founders of the republic should receive
their meed of gratitude, on its birth day. They deem it fitting, a matter of
sacred duty, that nothing should be wanting to the welcome of those who revisit
their birthplace and renew their early home associations. Now how is it that
this same sense of obligation is so sparsely and faintly felt where it is supremely
due * Not one of you doubts that the gospel is the palladium of our liberty,
the mother and nurse of all pure patriotism and faithful public service ; that
Jesus of Nazareth is the author of our social privileges and blessings, the guai-
dian spirit of our homes, the virtual bond of our domestic unions ; in fine, that
there is not a blessing that we shaU recognize, a joy that we shall experience
on the morrow, which has not either been created by him, or through his agency
been rendered immeasurably more precious and availing. Yet here are spread
the elements of his commemorative festival, hallowed by his dying request and
participation, surrounded with associations that seem adapted to make their
irresistible appeal to every sensitive conscience and every impressible heart.
And can it be ? yes, so it is ; multitudes that talk and talk sincerely of duty and
obligation about to-morrow's festival, feel no compunction of conscience in turn
ing away from to-day's. They drink at the fountain ; they avert their regards,
withhold their gratitude from the source. Yet at the source not lies the buried,
but sits the ever living Christ. We do not so much commemorate him as com
mune with him. We receive his word, — "Lo, I am with you alway." W«
look to the direct inpouring of his sympathy and help, for the fulness that

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shall replenish oar wasting urns of spiritual life. We feel that in rejecting th»
fgvitation to this service, you are not slighting the memory of a dead
benefactor, hut spurning the society of a still and ever living friend. Are there
those here, who, were he on earth, would gladly join his company and sit at his
feet and hang upon his words 1 For you at least, for all who however frail and
erring can lift to him a thought of gratitude, is this table spread, and the cor
dial welcome ready. The spirit of God1,- and the bride, the church of Christ's
espousals, says Come; and let him that heareth say Come ; and let him that *
athirst come ; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

«*I,ET ITS GO HOMEr"

" Let t» go home !" was the happy thought
That sprang from the heart of one
Who remembered the scenes of bis boyish day*
With the love of an absent son,

" Let us go home !" and the words as they fell
From the lips of the truant boy,
Like the treasured strains of an olden gong
Wer« echoed in tones of joy.

Loudly the notes of welcome rung
Throughout that olden home,
And the kindly words of fond recall
Were proffered to all who roam.

They come ! the wanderers return,
Old memories to renew ;
Joyous was this reunion sweet,
Of friends unchanged and true.

Heart beat to heart, and hand pressed hand ,•
While cheeringiy we trace
The impress of affection's seal
On each familiar face.

The sports, the lores of early hours,
Were once again talked e'er ;
And merrily the laugh went round,
As in the days of yore.

And yet amid the joyous mirth
The silent tear must fall,
As they, the absent and the dead,
Fond memory would recall.

For sad indeed and desolate
Is many a household now ;
And life's stern discipline we read
On many a saddened brow.

But blessings on the kindly ones !
The loyed who yet remain ;
Within whose pleasant hearts and home*
A place we still retain.

And when life's gatherings arc o'er,
Kecalled with all whOTCam,
We will unite—" no waadenr lost"—
Within " our Father's" tome,

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CXE* •\7>XJ9n?OjEU9, «*se.

THE following list comprises not only the names of the natives who were present at the
gathering on the Fourih, but also of all others who are natives of Portsmouth, or who have
resided a score of years among us, of whom we have received any information. The list is
aa full as we are enabled in a limited time to make it, although many names have doubtless
been overlooked.

RESIDENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Boston.

Left Portsm. ( Left Portsm .

John E. Abbott, merchant 1840 ! George W. Bazin, printer 1817

Wra. E. Abbott, fancy goods 1841 ! G. W. Burditt, upholster

J. L. Adams, silver plater 1832 j George Bartlett, clerk 1852

Sam'l Adams, book-binder 1830 | Frank L. Betton, clerk

G. Adwers 1852 | William H. Barnes

Daniel Akerman ! B. F. Butler, merchant 1834

Ira Ayers, barber 1827 I James Brasbridge

A. E. Bachelder, merchant j Floyd Briggs

Henry L. Bachelder, merchant j Charles T. Barry

Josiah G. Bachelder, jeweller 1830 | Henry M. Carr, printer

J. W. Bachelder, merchant 1836 ! W. Clifton Claggett 1846

Charles W. Batchelder, cooper 1830 | Charles W. Cheever, tailor 1848

Sylvester Barnard, painter 1825 j Joseph Cheever, physician 1847

John L. Badger, shipwright 1843 j William Clark, physician 1824

John L. Badger, clerk ! Philip W. Currier, clerk 1853

John Badger j Charles Caverly, collector 1816

John Ball, cooper | John E. W. Coleman, painter 1852

George Ball, clerk J Sam'l M. Colcord, druggist

T. M. Ball, merchant 1832 | Lewis J. Coleman, dry goods

E. W. Ball, bookeeper 1839 ! Wm. H. Cate, pump & block 1828

Charles W. Ball, book-keeper 1842 j Samuel Cate, cooper 1820

Alfred M. Beck, merchant 1848 j B. F. Cate, wood mouldings 1852

Alfred M. Beck, Jr. clerk 1848 ! Eben. Chadwick, merchant 1809

J. S. Beck, clerk i Howard M. Curtis

Chas. E. Blunt, It. U.S. eng'rs 1829 j Benj. Curtis, Jr. car maker 1850

Henry S. Bodge, clerk 1853 ] John R. Cushman, bookbinder

Geo. Bigelow ] J. H. Caldwell, counter-maker

James R. Bigelow 1844 ! Theodore Chase, merchant 1831

D. Jackson Bigelow, bookseller 1844 ! Lemuel E. Caswell, merchant 1841

L. A. Beal, clerk 1853 j J. H. C. Coffin, clerk

Henry R. Beal, clerk 1848 ) Frank Colburn, clerk 1845

J. W. Bourne, accountant 1833 | S. H. Drown

Joseph L. Bruce, painter 1842 i Thomas P. Drown, clerk

Oliver Briard, merchant j L. M. Drown, clerk 1844

Robert Briard, carpenter 1853 i William Davis, blacksmith 1848

Wm. Britcher, confectioner 1840 | Calvin Davis, Jr. carpenter 1853

John H. Bufford, lithographer 1829 | Jere. A. Dennett, clerk 1836

Timothy Barker ! George Dennett, custom-house

John Brown, mirror setter 1843 j Geo. Wm. Dennett, druggist 1850

John Brown, blacksmith 1850 | Charles Dennett

Charles H. Brown | G. Franklin Dennett 1848

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W. S. Damrell, printer
Chas. L. Damrell, bookseller
John M. Dearborn, range&t'ur.
Charles E. Dixon
C. L. Duncan, clerk
Geo. C. Dow, civ. eng.
W. J. Drake, machinist
Matthias Da* ton
William Darton
J. Calvin Dame, machinist
Marshal M. Dame, machinist
Charles C. Dame, teacher
Woodbury Emery
Geo. F. Emery, U.S. gen. ap'r
Wm. T. Eustis, trea. Og. R.R.
James T. Fields, bookseller
George A. Fields, book-binder
Win. H. Fernald, clerk
Woodbury M. Fernald, literary
William M. Fernald, cooper
Joseph Fernald, machinist

A. W. Fernald, mast maker

B. L. Fernald, mast maker
Daniel Fernald, mast maker
N. Marshal Fernald, trader
Ichabod N. Fernald, printer
Jaines S. Fernald, clerk
Joshua W. Fernald, dry goods
Robert F. Foster, printer

I. W. Frye, editor .
Andrew J. Frye, fancy goods
Samuel S. Frye, patent leather
J. L. Flanders, book-keeper
Geo. W. Foss, student
J. Edward Fishley
William H. Fishley
William A. Fogg
N. A. Fogg, printer
Stephen Fitzgerald, carpenter
Luther Farwell, clerk
Charles Flanders, shipmaster
William H. Floyd
William Goddard
W. L. Goddard
Charles E. Griswold, clerk
Edwin A. Goodrich, printer
Sam'l H. Gookin, dry goods
J. M. Gookin, clerk
W. H. Gookin, mariner
Charles A. Gookin, clerk
Daniel J. Goss, merchant
Sam'l K. Gilman, post-office
J. Smith Gerrish, stove

j Wm. A. Greenough, jr. painter 1849
1849 ! Robert T. Greenough 1849

1796 ! Edmund R. Griffith, painter 1818

j C. W. C. Grant, tailor 1825

1849 | Bradford Gay, artist 1845

] Thomas H. Hickey, merchant 1845

1851 ! James F. Hickey, clerk 1843
! James D. Harris, clerk 1847
JTheo. S. Harris, apothecary 1848

1848 ! Wm. H. Harvey, clerk 1853

1849 ! Onslow G. Hill, clerk

1887 ! Samuel E. Hill, Central house 183t)
! Walter E. Hill, merchant 1828

1828 j Wm. H. Hill, stationer 1831

1809 | James A. Hayes, merchant 183(5
1831 | Joseph Harrold, cooper 1824

1833 ! S. Rowland Hart, broker 1829

1852 | O. A. Hanscom, clerk 1851
1830 ! S. P. Hanscom, reporter 1837
1818 ] Dwight Hanscom, clerk 1351
1843 ! George H. Ham

| A. F. Ham, tailor 1853

j Orville A. Ham, printer 1848

; Sam'l B. Hobart, sup. M. Ra'ay
1847 \ Geo. K. Hooper, furniture dlr. 1838
1847 ! Chas. H. Hersey. draughtsman

1853 j James Holbrook, blacksmith 1809
1847 ] Wm. B. Holbrook, carpenter 1838
1847 ! E. Howe, printer

1822 i William Hall, carpenter 1840

1852 ! Charles C. Hall
i Timothy Hall

1846 i Barnabas Hall, carpenter 1840

! John Hall, leather dealer 1 825
! A. J. Hall, counter maker
; George W. Holm an, upholstery
| S. F. Hartshorn, Jr. " 1851

1850 ; George Huntress
! Charles Hancock
;' B. F. Henry

1849 | Nathaniel Jones, carpenter 1818
! William Jones, painter 1853

! Daniel F. Jones, printer 1839

1845 ! Leonard Jackson, printer 1828

1836 ] Chas. E. Jackson, Suffolk bank 1849

1853 ! John A. Johnson, book-keeper

1836

1842

1853

1851

1845 j Levi Kelley, cooper

1818 i J. Francis Kimball

1836 ' Sam'l Newhall Knigbt, clexk

Charles W. Kennard, clerk
John S. Kennard, clerk
i M. Parry Kennard, merchant
Wm. H. Kennard, merchant

1851
1844
1836
1840
1829

1839

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Benjamin Kingsbury, butcher
Thomas Kittson
J. W. Knowlton
Nathan P. Laighton
Geo. H. Laighton, marble wkr.
Paul Laighton, shipmaster
James A. Laighton, clerk
C. Woodbury Langdon, clerk
Thos. R. Lambert, clergyman
Wm. H. Ladd, publisher Bee
John H. Lacoste, upholster
AnthonyLangfordjWatchmaker
John S. Locke, clerk
Langdon Locke, machinist
Andrew J. Locke
John P. Lord, custom-house
George H. Lane, clerk

B. F. Lowd, clerk
J. Quincy Lowd

Nath'l Melcher, post-office

Sylvester Melcher

W. N. Melcher, express

William Marden, printer

David Marden, shoemaker

Wm. H. Marden, painter

A. J. Mann

N. P. Mann, fish dealer

N. P. Mann, Jr.

Samuel W. Mudge, printer

Alfred Mudge, printer

Geo. W. Mudge

Andrew C. Mudge, merchant

Geo. B. Milton, merchant

George M. Mason, counsellor

Robert T. Mason

Charles Mason, clergyman

Samuel J Mason

Nicholas Mason, stove dealer

Wm. U. Moulton, printer

Benjamin P. Moulton, printer

C. H. Moulton, printer
W. Frank Mullin, clerk

J. Mulin and Brother, clerks

Thomas R. Martin, tin ware

Chas. F. Marline, book-keeper

A. M. Marline, book-keeper

A. B. Mendum, grocer

John S. Mendum

J. D. Mendam

John W. Moses, mason

T. M. Moses, provision dealer

Joseph C. Muchmore, rigger

William F. McClintock

1849 1 James S. Murble, carpenter

j Daniel S. Mugridge, clerk 1852
j C. S. Macreading, clergyman 1811

18381 Moses Miller, cooper 1818

1853 ! George Miller

1 848 j James Miller 1831

1853 i H. G. Manning

1852 ! James J. Morley 1 832
1836 ! A. P. Marston

1820 i Moses M. Marston

1845 ! J. S. March, Shoe & L. D. Bank

1827 ! Joseph W. Merrill, druggist

i W. T. Mathews, chaise manf.

1853 ! John S. Meserve, ship joiner

j Robert Morrison, supt. f. school 1841
1820 j John H. Noble, merchant 1845
! James Nute, blacksmith

1843 ! Thomas S. Neal, mason 1828
i B. F. Nutting, artist

1828 I E. W. Norton, gas fitter

i Wm. H. H. Nelson, porter 1836
; Joseph Norris, cabinet maker 1843
1818IW.R. Nutter

1824 I Wm. B. Oxford, boat-builder 1816
1853 | John W. Odiorne, spar maker

i Francis E. Parker, lawyer 1834
1818 i John D. Parker, merchant 1823

': Ethan A. Paddock, clerk 1835

1842 j E. Pitman, tailor 1 826

1825 j Wm. Pitman, clerk 1818
1842 I David S. Philbrook, dry goods
1839 i Henry Philbrick, carpenter 1852

1844 j Daniel B. Paul, clerk 1852
| Edwin Paul, clerk 185S
] James Paul

| Wm. F. Parrott, merchant
j J. M. Perry, cooper 1822

1844 ! C. W. Plaisted, machinist 1850

1842 I W. Plumer, shipmaster
j Jacob P. Plumer

1838 j Avery Plumer, Jr.

1850 i Joseph T. Pierce, shipwright 1846

1843 ! Benj. C. Piper, clerk 1840
! William H. Piper, clerk 1840

1842 1 James R. Putnam, painter 1840

1849 | James Place

! Edward L. Pike, printer 1832

! E. A. Robinson, clerk 1840

! S. Robinson, merchant 1832

i H. E. Robinson, clerk . 1835

! Edwin H. Rice, clerk

18461 Gilinan Randall

1832 ! David S. Rand, machinist 1846

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Moses Rand, Jr. hatter 1851

Jos. Remick, Jr. machinist
Albert Remick, clerk, 1851

T. M. Rundlett, custom-house 1839
James W. Ricker, printer 1847

Edmund B. Ricker, painter 1827
Christo'r E. Rymes, machinist 1841
Samuel Rea, custom-house 1847
J.Pierpont Rea, school 1847

Chas. Edwin Rea, school 1847

Horace Rea 1848

Samuel W. Rea
George H. Rea
James Reid, machinist
Daniel Rackliff
John E. Rolland

Dan'l B. Sawyer, h. carpenter 1852
W. E. Stan wood, paper hanger 1832
Joseph Sise, clerk 1848

Ephraim Shackford, painter
Charles Stone, painter
Baron Stowe, clergyman 1832

Augustus Spinney, car maker 1851
Thomas Spinney
Daniel R. Sheafe, merchant
John P. Somerby, car builder
Howard M. Somerby 1845

Daniel K. Sparhawk, com. mer. 1832
Benj. P. Shillaber, printer 1832
Francis R. Smith, dry goods 1840
Matthew Hale Smith, law
Cyrus Smith, Suffolk bank 1823
F. A. Shapley

Albert F. Sise, salesman 1848

Francis P. Sise, clerk 1852

James T. Simes, clerk 1852

Joseph S. Simes, clerk 1852

Joseph Simes, merchant 1827

Rufus Stuart, carpenter 1853

Edwin Shackford, p. forte m'r 1851
John W. Stavers, clerk 1850

Geo. W. Seaward, clerk 1816

Henry Seaward, printer
Joseph Scriggina

John Stokell 1842

J .Marshal Shepherd, hack 1850
James O. Trefethen, carpenter 1852
L'd Trefethen, cabinet maker
Daniel Taylor, merchant 1832

Wm. W. Tyler

Garland Turell, broker 1830

J. A. Thompson, printer & pub.
Charles Tappan, bookseller 1815

jWm. H. Tripp, cooper 1853

jWm. S. Tullock, book-keeper 1834

|Hugh H. Tuttle, printer 1829

1 W. P. Treadwell, mahog'ny dr.

' Stephen Titcomb

[Stephen Tucker, sup. city land 1825

| James Vanghan 1806

! Henry White

'Lorenzo White

| Thomas B, Wiggin, cooper

I S. Adams Wiggin, clerk 1853

! Ira W. Wiggin, trader 184 J

j Joseph P. Wilson 1850

! Joseph T. Wilson, machinist 1850

j Ben ning Wilson, cabinet maker 1848

] Jacob Walden, shipping master 1838

! Augustus Walden, varnisher 1848

! Thomas Walden, calker 1844

I Isaac Waldron, clerk

1 Sam'l W. Waldron, merchant 1834

! Sam'l W. Waldron, J r.

j Alfred Waldron

j James H. Weeks, merchant 1831

[ William A. Weeks

1 Geo. S. Walker, dry goods 1845

! W. S. Walker, clerk 1852

I James Warren Wildes, clerk

| John Woods

I Edwin A. Wadleigh, clerk

;' D. L. Webster, leather dealer

j John G.Webster, leather dealer 1825

j J. Wendell, Jr. dry goods 1843

j Samuel Whidden, printer 1821

! John York, merchant 1843

! Charles Young

Charlestown.

| Edmund M. Adamson, tailor 1844
j Franklin Ayers, carpenter 1851
! Richard C. Bazin 1833

I Joshua W. Bazin

! John Cheever, physician 1818

j Lyman O. Chase, ship carpen'r 1829
! James A. Cook, spar maker 1836
! Benj. Crocker, carpenter 1843

! Theodore S. Davis
I Otis Falls 1844

j Wm. Fernald, cabinet maker 1844
j Levi Frye, clerk, 1835

! Edwin R. Laighton, clerk 185f

! Edward J. Norris, carpenter 1836
I Isaiah B. Norris, wheelwright 1834
| Moses Norris
! Hiram Peaslee, carpenter 1852

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Robert Pearson { Hopkinton.

James Remick, carpenter 1845 j Henry Waldron

J. H. Sanderson, blacksmith Lowell.

Daniel Seaward I Wear Colcord, mason 1817

J. Simons ! Charles H. Dennett

Timothy Upharn, merchant 1845 j Hirain Dennett, tailor 1836

Chelsea. \ Alfred Oilman, printer 1825

Wm. Jackson 1844 ! B. T. Hardy, merchant 1823

J. O. Mendum, letter carrier 1839 'Moses G. Howe, lawyer 1837

Cambridge. j Oliver March, bookseller 1837

Isaiah Bailey, mason j J. G. Peabody

Nathan '1 Cotton, com'n agent 1817 j B. H. Penhallow, printer 1838

Henry Hanson, carpenter 1850 [Joseph Raynes, jeweller 1831

Thomas S. Hayes, grocer ! L. K. Streeter, editor 1823

John S. Knowlton | Robert N. Tullock, silversmith 1832

Albert B. Lowd, carver 1852 ] James P. Walker, bookseller 1845

Thomas Moses, printer 1813 [ Geo. W. Wendell, dry goods 1825

Alfred A. Stacker, physician 1837 I William G. Wise, cash'rm'f co. 1836

Hamilton E. Towle, student 1850 ' Lawrence.

Andvver. j William S. Horton, machinist 1848

J. W. P. Carter j Nathaniel White

George E. Davis Lynn.

Charles M. Pickering jEIbridge G. Brooks 1833

Daniel Shannon j Jeremiah Dearborn, merchant 1828

Amesbury. j Charles Hatch, merchant 1850

Oliver Larkin ! D. W. Hatch, merchant 1850

J. W. Staples ! Washington Haven, dry goods 1351

Beverly. ! Henry Haven

Mark Dennett, jr. j Charles Haven

Chas. W. Reding, clergyman 1830 | Dan'l Moulton, clothing store 1828

Brookline. i James D. Moulton

Mark W. Sheafe / Asa E. Mullin

S. Danvers. \ Chas. C. Shackford, clergyman 1831

J. Wesley Hubbard | John C. Vennard, joiner

Dedham. \ J. S. Wentworth

John Holmes Maiden.

Oliver Holmes j E. L. Adams

Dorchester. \ Jeremiah Newman

Nath'l Bailey, carp. & calker 1843 j John G. Webster

Gideon Beck, auctioneer 1836 ! Marshfield.

Charles N. Bailey 1844 I Fletcher Webster.

A. W. Bell Melrose.

Nath'l Dennett, 3d 1844 j William Gushing, painter

G. W. Tuckerman, police ! Leonard Jackson, printer 1822

Euston. j Wm. F. Serrat, whitesmith 1880

Paul Laighton Middleton.

George E. R. Laighton | Israel W. Putnam, clergyman 1835

Fall River. Milton.

Charles F. Tucker, clerk 1826 j Israel P. Miller John H. Miller

Gloucester. Natick.

William W. Parrott, merchant 1809 j John M. Seaward, trader 1818

Haverhitt. \ George D. Wise

J. M. Goodrich ' New-Bedford, Abner J. Phipps.

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Newburyport.

Wm. H. Brewster, printer 1831
Charles W. Gurney
Joshua Marston
John E. Townsend
Eben. Wheelwright, merchant 1834 |
George E. Young
T. R. Hanson, trader
Newton.

G, H. deRoachmont, carpenter 1825
Leander Hansooni, carpenter 1852
Isaac Holmes

Quincy.
Charles W. Goddard

Roxbury.

Henry L. French, machinist
Gardner J. Greenleaf
Albert D. Jenness, pat. leather 1852
Levi M. Jenness, expressman 1848
Yeaton Jenness, expressman
I. P. Libbey, watch-maker 1850
Wm. Rice Richard Rice

C. F. Sleeper, architect 1830

Jos. B. Somerby, p. forte m'r
Frank Somerby

Randolph.
Matthew Clark

Samuel Clark
Edmund F. Clark

Reading.

Geo. Badger, cabinet manf'r 18i3
Wm. Badger, cabinet manfr 1884

Salem.

John Ball, city missionary
Joseph Ham George C. Hill

Springfield.
George W. Boyd

Somerville.
Peter Peduzzi

Charles Israel Putnam, M. D. 1835
Benjamin Randall

East Stoughton.
John E. W. Coleman

Taunton.

T. Simes Dennett 1841

D. H. B. Wheelwright, teacher 1834

Tiwksbury.
Leonard Huntress 1832

Watertown.
Fred'ck S. Wendell, carpenter 1832

Worcester .

John G. Adams, clergyman 1823
Thodore H. Bartlett, printer
Albert C. Tarlton

Augusta, Me.
Moses Noble, trader
Thomas C. Noble
Geo. H. Perkins
Wm. H. Marden, machinist

Bangor, Me.
Stephen Gilman, furniture

MAINE.

Damariscotta, Me.
181 2 ] Edward H. Sise
1814 ; Gardiner, Me.

1850 ! Parker Sheldon, ex-mayor
1850 j Goff's Corner, Me.

I Massena Goodrich, clergyman
1816! Kittery, Me.

1814

Samuel Laighton, book-keeper 1852 J George Sparhawk
Leonard March 1832 ! Limerick, Me.

J. G. Rand

Bath, Me.
Leonard Cotton

South-Berwick, Me.
John E. Bailey
William A. Cromwell
John P. Cromwell, mariner
Job Harris

William D. Jewett, merchant 1823
Moses Noble

Biddeford, Me.
George F. Bosher
George Swasey, machinist

Eliot, Me.
James Jones S. C. Martin

I Laommi B. Dame, physician
Newcastle, Me.

] John P. Cooper

North WUtfield.Me.

j Bdw'd Warren Putnam, cler.
Portland, Me.

\ John J. Brown, broker

! Charles H. French

! Oliver Gerrish, watch-maker

I Henry Goddard, merchant

j Hanson M. Hart, wool dealer

| Henry B. Hart, wool dealer

! ifames E. Haseltine

• W. H. Knowlton

• Richard Phillips, seaman

1849

1835
1820

1817
1820
1834
1832

A. H. Rowe

And'w G. Senter, watch-maker 1839

Wm. Senter, watch-maker 1827

Saco, Me.
Jacob Marston, carpenter 1826

NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

j N. T. Moulton, jr. clothing 1851
j Ewd. S. Moulton, watch-maker 1788
| Oliver Moulton, overseer
| Edward Stiles, wheelwright 1833

Allenstoion, N. H.
George W. Ela, farmer

Harrington, N. H.
Benj. Thompson

Barnstead, N. H.
Andrew Marshall

Concord, N. H.

Thomas Chadbourne, physician 1810
Charles S. Gilman
M. V. B. Locke, printer
Samuel B. Larkin
Joseph C. Perkins, printer
Thomas P. Treadwell

Dover, N. £T.

Joshua Banfield 1814

AugustineDuny on, watchmaker 1851
John T. Gibbs, editor 1825

Francis H. Hardy 1819

Leonard S. Rand • 1828

Leonard R. Gray
John Scriggins

Durham, N. H.
Clement M.Davis. William Young

Epping, N. H.
Thomas Boardman, tailor 1852

Exeter, N. H.

John Lowe, Jr. 1830

Theodore Moses 1779

George Matb.es
J. W. Brooks
Mark Colbath
S. S. Fletcher
M. D. Whidden
Luke Julian

Oliver Smith, printer 1817

J. Hamilton Shapley, register
Daniel Melcher
Thomas Wiggin, 2d

Gilford, N. H.
Woodbury Melcher, trader

Great-Falls, N. H.
Elisha Andrews, Jr. grocer 1806
Oliver Chick, Mason 1813

Daniel Ham, hatter 1826

John Martin
Mark Noble, trea. of Sav. Bk. 1814

Theodore H. Rand, trader 1849
I Benj. Sherburne, machinist 1828
George W. Wendell

Greenland, N. H.
Joshua W. Peirce
John T. Parrott
George T. Ball
Henry Hart
Thomas W. Penhallow
Peter Bonning

Charles E. Salter, shipmaster J851
John Lowd
Henry Lowd

North Hampton, N. H.
\ George Grouard

Kingston, N.H.
j Leonard Shilling
| John Shilling

Manchester, N. H,

\ Lt. J. A. Underwood 1836

| Charles T. Durgin
| Joseph Potter
| Treat Potter
! F. B. Johnson, hair work 1842

Milton Mills, N. H.
| Bray U. Simes, trader 1824

Netcington, N. H.
! J. W. Pickering
! Joshua W. Nutter
! James Nutter, carpenter 1829

I William S. Nutter, carpenter 1846
| Charles W. Nutter, carpenter 1829
! F. W. de Roachment 1818

! George W. de Roachmont 1B3S
I Frank Pettigrew

Rochester, N. H.
\ Gilbert Homey, trader

S. Newmarket, N. B.
I John F. Kennard
I A. W. Walker
I William L. Walker

Ossipee, N. H.
! William Hazlett

Pembroke, N. H.
| Benjamin B. Hazelton.
iSunapee, N.H. Joseph Tucker

78

Rollinsford, N. H. I George Thompson, clergyman

Nathaniel Ham ! William S. Yeaton
Morris Ham Salem, N. H.

Slratham, N. H. j David Lowd

Lawrence Boardman Satmonfalls, N. H.

Dudley Chase ! Robert H. Holbrook

Benjamin Moulton ' William Morton, carpenter

NEW-YORK.

New-York City. \ Archibald A. Peterson

Julian Allen ! George F. Peterson

Thomas B. Aldrich j Edwin A. Peterson

Charles Abernethey | George W. Philbrook

Daniel D. Badger j William H. Peterson

James M. Badger I George W. Phipps

George J. Badger j Samuel W. Putnam

Samuel A. Badger j Charles Goddard Pickering
Henry S. Ball, clerk 1828 j John Pray

George Barker ! William B. Robinson

William P. Bennett I Capt. James Sullivan

George Burbank j Capt. James Salter

A. S. Baldwin | Alonzo Taft

John H. Bowles j William H. Thomas
Samuel L. Brewster 1850 I Charles Turell

Moses P. Brown ! William Turell

James W. Carr j Charles J. Turell

J. Newton Curtis j L. B. Walker

Elijah Curtis ! William A. Walker

Ralph C. Cutter j William Augustus Walker
Joseph F. Dow, fancy painter 1838 j John S. Walker

A. Jackson Decatnr | Charles Walker

James W. Emery ! William Walker

Charles L. Frost ! James L. Wise

William Fernald j William G. Wendell

Joshua J. Goodrich ; T. D. Wendell

Alfred A. Hall j Josiah F. Wilson

John W. Harrat ! Charles W. Wilson

Charles Haven ! Henry Young

J. Woodward Haven j Orlando Yeaton
J. Appleton Haven Brooklyn, N. Y.

Josiah Halev • John Blunt, Jr.

Lieat. T. J.'Haines, U. S. A. j Nath'l March Blunt, U. S. Art'y

J. Harris Ham I Joseph Spinney

Henry S. Hill ! John Blunt, pres. Brooklyn bank

Charles H. Hill j Henry S. Hill, merchant

John M. Hill j Joseph Spinney, Jr.
Horace Hill Buffalo, N. Y.

Wesley W. Hill ! William Treat, physician
C. H. C. Hubbard, jeweller 1832 j Rochester, N. Y.

William B. Johnson ] Alfred M. Badger
John Jewett Monroe Works, N. Y.

Eliphalet Ladd ! Peter P. Parrott
William P. Mickell New-Hamburg, N. Y.

Jonathan Morrison j J. Fisher Sheaf e

79

OTHER

Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles Wm. Coxe, merchant
Alfred Wm. L. Elwyn, esquire.
N. Parker Haven 1852

Marshall Hill
E. Ricker Hill

Manning Kennard, merchant 1832
Wm. M. Kennard, ship master 1852
Charles A. Lyman
Walter Langdon

George Rundlett 1850

Daniel M. Rollins

N. Parker Shortridge, merch't 1831
Benjamin T. Tredick
Mark R. Wendell

A. S. Wentworth, carpet ma'r 1844
Edmund Q. Waldron, clergyman

Meadville, Pa.
Nathaniel S. Folsom, clergyman

Pittsburg^ Pa.

James M. Haselton 1846

Baldwin Haselton 1850

Brady's Bend, Pa.
John H. Haines, Iron Co. 1853

Alonzo Haines, " 1851

John G. Little, " 1815

John G. Townsend " 1851

Warrington, Pa.
William F. Laskey

Pottsville, Pa.
Alexander Henderson, merchant

Pennsylvania.
Daniel Dearborn. Samuel Hazlett

Providence, R. I.

Charles Akerman, bookbinder 1830
Onsville E. Pray
George W. Flagg

Bristol, R. 1.

William H.S. Bayley 1814

John Gregory

New-London, Ct.
George O. Merriam 1846

Elizabethport, N. J.
Joseph C. Moses

Trenton, N. J.
Joseph H. Thompson

Cranberry, N. J.
William A. Haselton, teacher 1853

Mobile, Ala.
Joseph Ela, merchant
Daniel D. Wyatt, printer 1824

Richmond, Va. .
William Green

STATES.

Washington, D. C.
| Richard Ela, clerk dist. oourt
! E. L. Childs

I Wentworth Larkin Childs, clerg.
| George M. Grouard 1816

j Silas H. Hill, lawyer 1831

! Charles March

Baltimore, Md.
| William Walker

Cincinnati, Ohio.
\ Horatio Page
! Samuel Warner

! Mark H. Wentworth, imp.&job.l843
I George J. Wentworth, " 1843
! John H. Hilton

Toledo, Ohio.
j John E. Shackford

Columbus, Ohio.

] Charles B. Dennett, printer 1829
! Paul Laighton, jr.
! John H. Wheeler

Chicago, III.
| George H. Foster

i George E. Webber, dry goods 1850
! Alfred A. Webster, dry goods I860

Mount Palatine, III.
I Nathan B. Folsom
I Boardman Folsom

Lancaster , III.
! Matthew S. Marsh

Peoria, 21L
i Henry I. Rugg

Granville, III.
\ William D. Hill
! St. Louis, Mo.

i Edmund Henderson
! James Holmes

j Lt. Charles E. Blunt, U. S. EngV
! Samuel Treat, judge

Louisville, Ky.

! Eusebius Hutchings, banker 1833
j L. V. Badger
j A. C. Badger, banker 1844

Indiana.
\ R. L. Harris, civil engineer 1849

Cannelton, la.
\ Charles Henderson, manfr
] Alonzo Wise

Wisconsin.

j Joshua W. Fernald
j David Holmes

Whitewater, Wis.
William D. Little, jr.

80

New-Orleans, La. California.

Thomas A. Adams 1843 j Benj. J. Akerman

Charles E. Blunt 1846 ; N. A. Haven Ball, merchant 1841
William B. Bowles ! Lawrence Bufford, painter

John Durgin ! Alonzo F. Brown 1850

William Henderson 1826 ! Charles W. Clark 1849

Samuel Hill 1838 • John S. Cutts

Peter Marcy 1828 j C. Thomas Clapham 1849

Samuel Marcy 1832 i Thomas W. Drown 1849

John L. Sheafe, lawyer i William H. Dunyon

Elbridge G. Treat 1838 | James M. Ela, merchant
Frederick W. Tilton [ Ezekiel Fitzgerald, merchant 1849

Howard Henderson i Albert Fernald

John Gaines j Benj. F. Foster, printer 1836

Charles Gaines j Robert B. Gray, goldsmith

Illinois. Augustus Hubbard, | Phineas J. Goodrich
Alonzo Hubbard, Robert Harrold ! John Goodrich, Jr.
Mississippi. Oliver B. Hill j William A. Goodrich

Woodville, Miss. \ Jeremiah D. Goodrich, jr.

Isaac H. Stanwood 1824 ! Thomas A. Harris, shipmaster

Dubuque, Iowa. I Abel Harris, shipmaster

Charles W. Cutter j John W. Huntress 1849

Laporte, la. J Edward A. Ham, printer

James M. C. Piper, trader 1840 | T. Leander Ham, printer

Clarksville, Geo. \ Charles Moses, goldsmith

Ataos T. Akerman, lawyer ! William Moses, goldsmith

Charleston, S. C- \ William P. Moulton, tin ware

Moses H. Stacey ! Horace Morrison, merchant

Newnansvill-e, E. Florida. I Augustus Morrison
George L. Brown ! Sam'l Osgood Putnam, raerc't 1835

Jacksonville, Fa. \ Theodore F. Rowe

William F. Dupray. | Edwin A. Rowe

Fort Smith, Ark. \ Charles E. Rand

William Jackson 1838 ! James Saunders

Joseph Jackson 1853 I James Henry Thompson, carpen'r

Beloit, Wis. \ George T. Upharn

Oliver P. Rice, engineer j Daniel G. Waldron

Galveston, Texas- ' J. Frank Winkley, trader 1851

Alexander H.Ladd 1851 1 Daniel E. Whidden, printer 1849

Honolulu, S. I. Portland, Oregon.

David P. Penballow, shipmaster \ George E. Gray, mariner
T. Coffin Harris J Charles B. Pillow, watch-maker

FauUdand Islands. Astoria, Oregon.

Mark Laighton John Norton 'Jacob S. Robioson

Whole 'number 880.— More than half were present.

EB.RATA.— In casting an eye over the primed sheets, we notice a few errors — among the™
the following :— 12th page, 10th line from bottom, for Corporations read Correspondence. ]4tU
page, last line, instead of Boston Brass read Bond's Cornet. 47th page, 8th line from top, toe
gloom read g loam. 63d page, 1st line, for William M. Fernald read Woodbury M. Fernald ;
fOlh line, tor from read for.

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